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In gamy Memphis another clean-up campaign was in full swing, and as usual owl-eyed, benign Boss Ed Crump, 67, was the prime cudgel-wielder. This time he was after the cats. Memphis songbirds were in peril, said the boss, so cats must go. A "nice house cat" was...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: People, May 24, 1943 | 5/24/1943 | See Source »

Gloomily, Sheean flew back to England and accompanied a British patrol to a North Atlantic rendezvous with a convoy of "the dirty little tramps that saved the world." Then he went out to China. It was a return to his youth of Personal History. He still has snide innuendos for...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Home to the Wars | 5/3/1943 | See Source »

Supported by an affable group of youngsters, Woolley tramps through Holland and Relgium behind the rush of the German armies, and manages to pick up, in addition to a junior League of Nations, a growing awareness of the import of the struggle in which his country is engaged. Roddy MacDowall...

Author: By J. H. K., | Title: MOVIEGOER | 10/14/1942 | See Source »

Immediately after the meet, his first thoughts were of the sprint relay team. "They were magnificent," he enthused. "Who ever rated us a chance in that event? And in the trial they looked like tramps, as they had all week in practice. But they came through to take third in...

Author: By Dan H. Fenn jr., | Title: CRIMSON WINS HEPTAGONALS TO UPSET YALE | 5/18/1942 | See Source »

Lester V. Berrey has been at work on this absorbing, 1,174-page thesaurus since 1931. He got special checking help from such experts as Bing Crosby (on music), Variety's Jack Edward (entertainment slang), John A. Leslie of Ohio State Prison on the language of tramps and the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: U. S. Slang | 3/2/1942 | See Source »

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