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...passed? Not exactly. Stray delegations wandered about on the first floor, and even a trifle abashed walked out; only the noble contingent which had penetrated Bertram swept off with the dinner gong and the keys. Did they get invited to have some ice cream and did they yelp in answer "we want beer." Not quite, except that the inspiring slogan actually did rend the night air. From the safe vantage point of upstairs windows someone did hazard that it must be Browne and Nichols and someone else threw out an empty cartoon of ice cream, in self defense one must...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE PRESS | 5/6/1932 | See Source »

Higher went Jane Ruby's fever. Weaker grew the puppies' whines. Mrs. Ruby was desperate, the doctor at the end of his resources. Suddenly the door flew open. In walked Horace Holden with Fluffy. "Yelp!" yelped Fluffy, bounding to the bed. Jane Ruby stretched out her arms, her fever subsided, she slept. Four spitz puppies had a hearty meal. Embarrassed at the praise showered upon him, the golden-hearted detective backed out, took lonesome old Lawrence Smith to jail...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Animals: Thriller | 3/7/1932 | See Source »

Sirs: When you read proof on p. 15 of the Aug. 3 issue, did no one yelp when whiskerless Governor Murray (Oklahoma) was seen in a cut next to "Red River War," in which he was referred to as "bewhiskered?" Or do you construe the possession of a generous mustache (as has Governor Murray) as admitting the appellation "bewhiskered...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Aug. 24, 1931 | 8/24/1931 | See Source »

...well might U. S. statesmen call on Europe to take a rather larger, a rather kinder, a rather better attitude. But the only direct U. S. rebuttal in Washington last week was a yelp of mental pain, quite lacking in dignified rebuke or injured moral rectitude. Yelped Representative Bertrand H. Snell, onetime upstate New York cheesemaker, chairman of the House Rules Committee: "Why is it that when a group of internationalists get together, they always decide that Uncle Sam must be the goat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: Universal Crisis | 5/18/1931 | See Source »

...nearly kicked another to tie the score in the third. In the last quarter Allan, an Army substitute, grabbed a forward pass and made the second touchdown for the Army. The final score was 13-3. Vice President Dawes, in a fur-lined coat, let out a dignified yelp and the people who listened to their radios in Nebraska clicked them off, with forlorn disappointment, in their chilly parlors...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Football: Dec. 3, 1928 | 12/3/1928 | See Source »

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