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Word: agee (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Live" magazine delves into the past of an American tavern girl who would become a lady; that she never quite succeeds until age has given her a dignity that might well pass as gentility is immaterial, for the course of her peregrinations on her quest provide a bonanza of risque and highly humorous situations...

Author: By V. F. Jr., | Title: The Playgoer | 11/23/1938 | See Source »

...special taxes of $417,500,000 ($89,000,000 more than the amount of all taxes that U. S. railroads pay). Truck manufacturers represented were Autocar, Baker-Raulang, Brockway, Diamond T, Divco-Twin, Dodge, Federal, Ford, Four Wheel Drive, Fruehauf Trailers, General Motors, International Harvester, Mack, Marmon-Herrington, Pak-Age-Car, Reo, Sterling, Studebaker, Truck-tor, Walker, Walter and White. Motor-makers were Aircooled Motors Corp., Buda, Continental, Cummins, Hercules, and Waukesha. Represented, too, were some 75 body, wheel, accessory and fuel companies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: Big Stuff | 11/21/1938 | See Source »

...Concertgoers who had long marveled at Pianist Rosenthal's strength, speed and musical under-standing now marveled at his endurance. Many a great virtuoso of the keyboard has bitten the dust since 1888. But lion-jawed Moriz Rosenthal could still teach tricks to pianists half his age, still held his place among the world's top pianists...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Durable Pianist | 11/21/1938 | See Source »

Twitted about his age, lusty, muscular Moriz Rosenthal replies: "A man is young if a lady can make him happy or unhappy. He enters middle age when a lady can make him happy, but no longer unhappy. He is old and gone if a lady can make him neither happy nor unhappy. Well, I am still a young...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Durable Pianist | 11/21/1938 | See Source »

...Black Book is primarily a volume of lamentations, breedings, prophecy, in which coarse, brutal or banal happenings at the hotel launch thoughts on the sickness of the age...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Dithyrambic Sex | 11/21/1938 | See Source »

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