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...troops who, with a blaring phonograph on a sledge, gallop round & round the streets of a village; some gruesome close-ups (on both sides) of rape, looting, calm and frantic murder; a soldier trying on some fancy drawers he stole for his wife, catching his big toe in the lace; peasants shyly examining a bullet-pocked plane as it exhales its metal odors in a meadow; a lame, derelict Cossack bandit dancing with his longer leg in a hole; Gregor's dead father, with warlice sheeting his face...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: A Man in.War | 8/4/1941 | See Source »

...matter of fact, Vag thought, as he ransacked his memory, those two sentences were about all of the contents of the course he remembered. Some damn battle in 732 and an emperor crossing the Alps to kiss a Pope's big toe, that was about the sum of the facts he had gleaned...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE VAGABOND | 5/22/1941 | See Source »

...Wally DeWitt who copped the scoring honors with steady toe. The former Stanford center counted eight conversions out of ten attempts to collect a total of 16 points as his final effort for the Rugby Club. Shelley of Queens kept the score from a blank by making good a penalty kick for three points...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: RUGBY TEAM SWEEPS LEAGUE IN 46 TO 3 TRIUMPH OVER QUEENS | 5/12/1941 | See Source »

...onetime chorus girl, four-a-day vaudeville toe dancer, radio Juliet to Leslie Howard's Romeo, Daughter Churchill, 26, is the wife of Austrian-born, U.S.-naturalized Comedian Vic Oliver. For his Sunday-night variety show over BBC she wrote her ballad, humming the melody while Husband Oliver strummed it on a piano. Best lines, as sung and recorded by oldtime Cinemactress Bebe Daniels...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Though Times Are Strange . . . | 5/5/1941 | See Source »

...Britain's in adequate forces in as many places as possible to delay, hamper, bother and hurt the Nazi machine as much as possible. In the colorful language of Colonel William Joseph Donovan, who talked with General Sir Archibald Percival Wavell not long ago, the British "had a toe hold and wanted to make it a foothold...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World War, STRATEGY: Mediterranean Balance Sheet | 4/28/1941 | See Source »

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