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...those rabbits. Mouth open, one paw up, great big eyes, little impressionists running all over the theatre. Take one home in your pocket. What if that sissy, Bambi, is a bore? What if mother-love, the Cruelty of Man, the Landlord of the Forest, and other miscellaneous nineteenth century melodrama are overdone until they become a lush mush? These are Disney's incorrigible faults, but they are well worth suffering or sleeping through for a glimpse of a lop-cared bunny yelling like hell as he slides...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MOVIEGOER | 10/23/1942 | See Source »

...allow them to be engaged. Through years of unofficial engagement, Victor poured out his inhibited heart to her in verse. Adele complained that she did not understand poetry. "Your soul understands poetry," said Hugo. Soon after his mother died, Victor married Adèle. In seven years she bore him five children...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Sublime Child | 10/19/1942 | See Source »

...coldly refusing roles which bore him, Sanders has been suspended three times. He does not mind. Suspension leaves him free - to accept more exciting roles from other studios ; to tinker with an obstinately earthbound airplane which he has been inventing for two years ; to sleep, which Sanders regards as the pleasantest thing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: New Picture, Oct. 19, 1942 | 10/19/1942 | See Source »

...last week, however, many Britons were reflecting that Winston Churchill, after all, bore a responsibility for the capabilities of the men around him. It was widely suspected that, if they had been at fault, the fault had been as much, if not more, the Prime Minister...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Dizzy Eminence | 10/5/1942 | See Source »

...Delhi a tall Indian dressed in pajamas and supposedly representing the Viceroy paraded through the streets leading a string of donkeys, each of which bore a placard with the name of an Indian member of the Viceroy's Council. Man & asses were arrested, and the court debated whether animals as well as man had violated rules banning parades...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDIA: The Time is Now | 10/5/1942 | See Source »

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