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...Chicago bureau's Jim Bell stood for a long time at a bus stop in The Loop, making a spot check of the current long-skirt vogue. A policeman tapped him on the shoulder and said: "I been watchin' you, buddy. Better move on. We don't like that stuff around here...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher, Mar. 31, 1947 | 3/31/1947 | See Source »

...Planted in the Senate was Bob Reynolds, chief of the Vindicators, who avowed: "I'll be sittin' there every minute watchin' things, and ready to amend bills to deal with aliens whenever possible...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RADICALS: Fifth Column | 6/10/1940 | See Source »

Westerner: Use your eyes, mister. Look around you. These blighted miles of hot sand have been made fit places to live in. Think of it! One day worth nothin' 'cept to go crazy thirstin' and watchin' vinegarroons crawlin' by the cacti, and today worth one billion dollars in taxable property! That's progress for ye, mister, that's progress...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Professional Touch | 8/22/1938 | See Source »

...Haven, Conn., Policeman Michael F. Hally stopped Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt for passing a red light in her automobile. Said she: ''I was watching the street car in front of me." Said he: "You wasn't watchin' nothing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Sep. 7, 1936 | 9/7/1936 | See Source »

...glad our seats are down heab!...Ah simply adoah watchin' football games...don't you?...Oh no! Ah'm not like the rest of these women heah, Ah don't wanna talk...Ah reckon Ah'm different that a way...Ah just love to watch fo'ward kicks, an field passes 'n' things...Oh is that wheah the Ahmy is sittin'?'...Sho' nuf'?...Ah'm so excited...Ah love the Ahmy...! When Ah was a little kid no biggah than that down home in Gawgia. Ah simply adoahed policemen, the way they went 'stridin' about in brass buttons, and stripes...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: One of Wellesley's Representatives From the South Airs Her Views on Army and Harvard--Scorns Brass Buttons | 10/19/1929 | See Source »

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