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Word: ares (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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¶ Fortnight ago, Secretary of the Interior Harold L. Ickes watched with bright red face while Gridiron Club members portrayed him as Donald Duck, the frenzied squawker. Last week, "Honest Harold"* engaged General Hugh Johnson in debate in Newark, said: "We are both contesting for the post of Donald Duck...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICAL NOTES: 1940 | 12/25/1939 | See Source »

This year most Germans are not sending Christmas cards because Minister for Propaganda and Public Enlightenment Dr. Paul Joseph Goebbels has requested that money which would be used on such cards be contributed to Nazi Winter Relief. To enable housewives to spice the traditional German Christmas puddings, cakes and cookies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: Christmas | 12/25/1939 | See Source »

All papers in the Reich featured the Fuhrer's decision that, as a special Christmas dispensation, each German man may buy one necktie, each woman one pair of stockings, without the usual deduction from his or her annual clothing ration of "100 points"-ordinarily a necktie exhausts three points...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: Christmas | 12/25/1939 | See Source »

"Rummiest War." In the United King dom authorities made frantic efforts to keep evacuated children from returning to town for Christmas, and literary bigwigs wrote persuasively in the press. "This Christmas, coming as it does in the rummiest war the world has ever known, will be a test of our...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: Christmas | 12/25/1939 | See Source »

U. S. dolls completely swept the German product from British doll marts, and clerks were enthusiastic. They banged the heads of the dolls against their counters, chirped at customers: "Just see-these American dolls are unbreakable!"

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: Christmas | 12/25/1939 | See Source »

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