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...dozen drowned predecessors, Willow Joe makes it. Then he lands in prison for shooting a man. His luck gets worse & worse. Then he becomes a hero in a big flood, is rewarded with a nice farm in the hills. But come summer, the Pennys start complaining- even the clock "ain't been ticking natural" -and sneak back happily to the storms, floods, fever, gyp salesmen, rousing revival meetings, fighting and good catfishing at Beaver Slough...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Jug Genius | 4/18/1938 | See Source »

Before he went to Washington this week to take his oath amid a storm of liberal protest John Milton declared, aping the Hague idiom: "I ain't never been arrested. I ain't never been indicted. I ain't never been convicted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEW JERSEY: Birthday Present | 1/31/1938 | See Source »

...industry. But while student and alumni committees were being formed to help in the organizing drive, industrious Yale Daily News heelers reported the C.I.O. had a big job on its hands. Cracked a janitor: "Lewis [C.I.O.'s John L.] sent his son to Princeton. That's enough, ain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: C.I.O. to Yale | 1/24/1938 | See Source »

...later. Its answer is a heart-warming yes, echoing around the shaded quiet of a i Vermont college town. Producer Walter ; Wanger has a theory of picture-making akin to Baseball's immortal Willie Keeler's formula for a good batting average ("Hit 'em where they ain't"). Hence this film, a reworking of the essentials of Allene Corliss' Summer Lightning (cloudbursts & all) aims soberly at the heart where most other cinemakers would aim at the funny bone. Whether the box offices will consider Producer Wanger as nifty a batter as Willie Keeler is another...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Jan. 24, 1938 | 1/24/1938 | See Source »

Cummon now, howja know he's a Harvard? she insisted. Well, you really wanna know, huh? he said. I tell ya then. See this car? Every seat in it is taken, ain't it? Everybody's sittin that's got a place to sit. But there's still one vacant seat left--the one next to HIM. That means he's a Harvard for sure...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Crime | 1/19/1938 | See Source »

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