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...pistol cracked. Up went the wire around the turtles in the ring's centre. The Dog House's Hot Dog (by Experiment, out of Mongrel) pulled in its neck and went to sleep. The Medical Clinic's Gluteus Maximus (by Cracked Pot, out of Whack) plunged madly toward the finish line, saw a bug, lost interest. Neck up and bobbing. Maple Leaf I (Buy British, out of God's Country) plugged steadily toward the 38-ft. circle's rim. A breeze whipped the Union Jack stuck on its back as it stepped across the line...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Animals: Turtle Derby | 7/9/1934 | See Source »

...suddenly enters the proceedings, alive, hearty and verbose. They will be amazed at what reappearing Frimbo has to say about death-rites in the African tribe of which he is king; at what he keeps in the bottles in his medicine chest: at who it was that tried to whack him on the head with a greasy human leg-bone...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Omnibus of Crime | 8/1/1932 | See Source »

...Miss Easter, if you don't stop roarin' an' bawlin' an' tearin' on the red raw minute yell be gettin' tally-whack an' tandam where ye'll not like it." So admonished by her nurse, little Easter, the story's heroine, manages to mind her P's & Q's for a minute, but not for more. There are her cousins Evelyn and Basil to get into mischief with, and Patsy the scullery boy. Patsy breeds ferrets in an overstuffed armchair, knows the countryside and its sports like...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Erin Go Bragh! | 6/20/1932 | See Source »

...Whack, smack, thwack...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Phi Beta Kappa & Kitty | 2/8/1932 | See Source »

...forget to whack...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Phi Beta Kappa & Kitty | 2/8/1932 | See Source »

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