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...ghosts of Ruddigore had shouted: "Coward, poltroon, shaker, squeamer, blockhead, sluggard, dullard, dreamer, shirker, shuffler, crawler, creeper, sniffler, snuffler, waller, weeper, earthworm, maggot, tadpole, weevil...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: COMMUNISTS: Ghost Story | 9/29/1947 | See Source »

...dusk the caravan emerged onto the broad plains of the Tehuantepec Isthmus, where, ever since the days of Heman Cortes, men have talked of digging a Gulf-to-Pacific Canal. Brown families bathed in the tepid streams. At Tequi-sixtlan, brilliantly costumed Tehuana women danced the stately Llorona (The Weeper) to the music of a twelve-foot marimba. The politicos watched, and sipped the milk of green coconuts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MEXICO,ARGENTINA: Backwoods Barnstormer | 4/29/1946 | See Source »

Sentimental Journey (20th Century-Fox), a soft-tremolo, full-quart weeper, should induce more snifflling and blubbering in the dark, more purse-fumbling and furtive eye-dabbing, than anything out of Hollywood since Marguerite Clark went to Heaven as Little...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Mar. 11, 1946 | 3/11/1946 | See Source »

...separated from his wife for eight months. He wouldn't be a son of mine if he stopped living." Wept crocodile Hearstling Cholly Knickerbock er: "What a pity that we are to be treated to the ugly spectacle of another Vanderbilt divorce in times such as these." No weeper, Mother Margaret talked on & on to reporters about "life" (sex): "If you've stopped loving a person, you have, and that's all there is to it. There's no explanation for it. But, although it happens every day, people always are upset. They...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: People, Aug. 18, 1941 | 8/18/1941 | See Source »

...last gentleman--is a crotchety old New Englander, who delights in insulting the lesser members of his family. And it is a compliment to his ability that he can insult them, for they are a pretty scaly lot. His sister Augusta (Edna May Oliver) is a scrawny, self-starting weeper; his only son (Donald Meek) is a fawning, scheming hypocrite, who spends his time making a record of his father's eccentricities with a view to proving him insane...

Author: By R. C., | Title: THE CRIMSON PLAYGOER | 10/31/1934 | See Source »

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