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Movies were jerkier, care were flimsier, and a million dollars was a whopping sum in 1932, but with W. C. Fields around to act in the first, smash up the second, and spend the third, Hollywood had little need of CinemaScope to turn out a funny film...

Author: By John A. Pope, | Title: If I Had A Million | 3/2/1955 | See Source »

...This is too much!" he shouted. "Either I smash my hand across his face, or I attack him for libel, or I resign...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Name Your Seconds, Sir! | 2/7/1955 | See Source »

...will agree with you. But how long can this nation live in constant fear without getting a generation of neurasthenics or, what is worse, a generation of the devil-may-care variety. Why wait for "the approaching deadlock"? Why wait for the time when "each has the power to smash the other into radioactive rubble"? Why not attack the enemy first...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: The Pistol & the Claw | 1/31/1955 | See Source »

Floodwaters on an Autobahn caused a freak chain-reaction smash-up involving 69 cars, trucks and motorcycles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WESTERN EUROPE: Gody's Elbows | 1/31/1955 | See Source »

...history was full of attempts to play, smash, or steal it, and once, it did almost a better job of stopping Yale than the football team. I 1947, an overzealous Eli fan ran onto the filed and tried to crash through the cowhide heads. There was a tremendous bang, but the Yalie ended up unconscious and the big drum still intact...

Author: By Jack Rosenthal, | Title: Band's Eight-Foot Bass Drum Expires From Age, Cold | 1/29/1955 | See Source »

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