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Word: beacon (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...attempt to take an informal poll on the question of easy death, the Sunday Forum of the Akron, Ohio Beacon Journal last month published a melancholy letter signed "Lonely Man." The letter was headed: Would You Kill Yourself If You Had An Incurable Illness...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Easy Death | 2/27/1939 | See Source »

Immediately letters of advice began pouring into the Beacon Journal's office. Last week Sunday Editor B. E. Maidenburg announced that the total to date was 450. Advice...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Easy Death | 2/27/1939 | See Source »

...pretending to be just "one of the boys." When asked what was his most embarrassing moment, the scourge of the pretty debs blushed while admitting that once he cut in on an old man dancing with a "fetching girl robed in white taffeta" (courtesy Betty Alden's column, "On Beacon Hill") and asked her "Who was that old geezer you were dancing with?" The fetching girl etc. responded lightly and politely, "Oh him. He's my father. He's giving the party...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fanatic Moocher Crashes Gates of Most Deb Parties | 2/23/1939 | See Source »

Jimmy Grippo is a professional magician, hypnotist and manager of a southpaw prizefighter, Melio Bettina of Beacon, N. Y. Last week in Manhattan's Madison Square Garden, 23-year-old Melio Bettina met 32-year-old Tiger Jack Fox of Spokane, Wash, for the light-heavyweight championship of the world (according to the pompous New York State Athletic Commission...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Grippo's Grip | 2/13/1939 | See Source »

...Labrador family can live on $350 a year, and it's not because of inertia. I've seen more inertia on Beacon Street in five minutes than I've seen in Newfoundland and Labrador in 20 years," he continued...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CURTIS RELATES WORK OF GRENFELL MISSION | 1/17/1939 | See Source »

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