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...scowled, thought for a moment. "Get away from me you twerp," he said. But then he settled down and began to analyze the game--calling it just...

Author: By Peter L. Garrett, | Title: Caldwell Disappointed at Play in Traditional Fray | 11/6/1954 | See Source »

...into the Brando part, sued Marlon for $2,000 damages. Marlon settled the suit by agreeing to make Désirée, later gloated openly about his success in "copping a medical plea." After that, a Fox executive remarked: "The only good thing I can say about this twerp is that he doesn't like marijuana...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: A Tiger in the Reeds | 10/11/1954 | See Source »

...filthy little twerp...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Stravinsky, Here I Come! | 3/27/1950 | See Source »

Twerpitude. In Pietermaritzburg, Natal, Thomas Evans and Peter Heary were fined ?5 & ?3 for applying to Supreme Court Justice Walter Thrash "a British epithet, untranslatable, but unmistakably offensive." The epithet: "twerp...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Jan. 11, 1943 | 1/11/1943 | See Source »

...Chiromys daubeutonia) is one type of the little, twerp-faced lemurs of France's Madagascar, remarkable for the fact that the third finger on each hand is preternaturally long and slim for delicately picking up caterpillars...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Animals: Paradise Lost | 2/3/1936 | See Source »

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