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...water morality with the dreggy wine of French "realism." It countered convention with Oscar Wildeish witticisms ("Where is the pleasure of having parents if you may not disobey them"). For common sense it substituted shamelessly overgrown verbiage (" 'Tears, little one,' I said. 'See how they swim like whitebait in the fish-pools of your eyes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Boys Will Be Boys | 12/4/1950 | See Source »

Although there is no need to sacrifice the interchangeability program, the Social Committee should reconsider its decision to run the Yale weekend on a communal basis, and, as soon as possible, turn the House Dance Committees loose to sink or swim in the old laissez-faire tradition...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Divided We Stand | 11/22/1950 | See Source »

...falls into the river and fish swim through its walls...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: Enter Poet, Laughing | 11/20/1950 | See Source »

...fighter planes on the beach of Leyte, and it in too late for him to get transportation out of the Islands. He tries to get to Australia in a little sail-boat with a crew of flyers. The boat capsizes three days later and they have to swim eight miles back to Leyte...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE MOVIEGOER | 11/15/1950 | See Source »

Broke in a girl in the seminar: "I have always thought the rolled trousers meant an old man who could not swim and had to wade, kind...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Find Your Own Answers | 11/13/1950 | See Source »

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