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...jumped out of the rear seat," drawled the rotund Senator, recounting the incident in his leisurely fashion, "and then I bumped into him. It's too bad there wasn't a motion-picture camera around. It would have furnished some good low comedy. He evidently didn't think I would drive into him. He turned around, sat down on the bumper, rather sprawled out and I carried him half way across the street. Then he jumped up and turned off the ignition...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICAL NOTE: Arkansans | 8/11/1924 | See Source »

...Pollyanna were sold, it was translated into five languages, including Japanese, and a Finnish edition is now under way. A prodigious mushroom crop of "Glad dubs" sprang up in its wake, and innumerable families were afflicted with "glad" little girls who, when a bee stung them, were glad it wasn't two bees...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Pollyanna Comes Back | 7/21/1924 | See Source »

...wasn't Frank Munsey called Joshua? He made the Sun stand still...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Morley's Quip | 7/21/1924 | See Source »

...came from the southern and the eastern hemisphere; two came from the middle of the Pacific; two came from the land that borders on the Arctic Ocean; two came from a rectangular island in the Caribbean; two came from the Nation's Capital. But it wasn't all a two-by-two affair. From the state of New York came 91, from Pennsylvania 79, from Ohio 51. There were...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CAMPAIGN: At Cleveland | 6/23/1924 | See Source »

...with an insurance house. My superior left?I had been doing his work, was thoroughly conversant with it?should have had the job. I expected it?rny fellow-workers expected it. Well, I didn't get it; some relative of one of the directors did; it wasn't fair; it wasn't right. To tell the truth, I had almost forgotten the incident, but possibly, subconsciously, that may have been the seed for the present system...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: In Rochester | 3/31/1924 | See Source »

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