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...politician, he is a New Deal follower who represented Maryland's Eastern Shore in Congress for 18 years (1921-39), specializing in fiscal problems. As a jurist, Judge Goldsborough is impatient of red tape and somewhat hasty. Once he called a defendant a son-of-a-bitch in court-an outburst that caused the U.S. Court of Appeals to reverse the case on the grounds of intemperate language...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Goliath & Davids | 12/2/1946 | See Source »

...aver (TIME, Oct. 7) that Wisbech rhymes with fizz peach. Not so. I've been stationed in the neighborhood [Cambridgeshire, England] for several, months, and can authoritatively state that it is pronounced "whiz bitch." What's the matter, do you think bitch is a nasty word...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Oct. 28, 1946 | 10/28/1946 | See Source »

Pitfalls and pratfalls were everywhere. In Detroit last week, a woman walked into a butcher shop without having got an introduction from an old customer. A butcher eyed her, scribbled a note to the boss. It read: "Who is she?" The answer: "I don't know. Starve the bitch...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Playing the Angles | 10/21/1946 | See Source »

...George came in from Verdella Tuesday evening. He was drunk as a lord and weaving about in the east part of town in his truck. . . . On his arrival [at the jail] he greeted Sheriff Bassett with the remark, 'I'm one drunk son of a bitch.' And there wasn't any doubt about the veracity of the first three words of this statement...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: All the News | 7/8/1946 | See Source »

Exhibits A & B in this clinical study of the disintegrative effect of great wealth on weak characters are the family heir, Gary Whitfield (whom his sister commonly addresses as "Stinker"), and his sister, Anne-Charlotte (whom her brother sometimes characterizes as "a nasty little bitch"). There is also Reese, a sharecropper's son who is brought up with Gary and Anne-Charlotte to act as an elevating influence. He succeeds chiefly in being sardonic and truculent. Written on the Wind reports the lifelong intellectual homosexuality between Reese and Gary. It also reports one or two murders, a suicide...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Of Slime & the River | 2/11/1946 | See Source »

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