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Word: bead (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...same token, most effective South American missionary in the U. S. last week was a brown-skinned bead-burdened bombshell named Carmen Miranda, who last week continued to pack them in on Broadway with her hot Portuguese singing, the international language of rolling hips and eyes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FOREIGN RELATIONS: Bombers of Good Will | 11/20/1939 | See Source »

...nervously reminded him that a luckless shot in the gunpowder magazine might blast them all to kingdom-come. Swallowing his professional pride, Marksman Peskin inched closer, then fired. The bullet pinked the beast between the eyes, but miraculously he bounded across the deck, roaring like a pampero. Drawing a bead on the rampaging lion, each guardsman fired. This time he dropped for good...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: Lion Hunt | 9/4/1939 | See Source »

Last week the doctor proudly pulled up all the beads, and gave Mrs. Gregory a juicy steak with no wires attached. "I can swallow better now than I have ever been able to,"; cried joyful Agnes Gregory as she chewed on the first steak she ever ate. With periodical bead-treatments and swallows of solid food, the lining of Mrs.Gregory's gullet should stay where it belongs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Beads to Steak | 4/10/1939 | See Source »

Last fortnight, on a hunch, an unnamed physician at General Hospital tried a simple kindergarten game on Mrs. Gregory. He knotted the end of a fine steel wire, gently pushed it down her throat into her stomach. On the wire he threaded a tiny steel bead, no larger than a grain of wheat, which he propelled down Mrs. Gregory's throat with a small steel spring. The next bead was a little larger. After half a dozen graduated beads had gone down the wire, and forced a narrow opening in Mrs. Gregory's food passage, the doctor pulled...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Beads to Steak | 4/10/1939 | See Source »

...full-blooded Tarascan Indian who once wore a red bead in his ear for good luck, General Amaro as War Minister for former President Plutarco Calles created Mexico's modern army. He has never cut much ice as a politician, but last week when he tossed his sombrero into Mexico's Presidential ring (to succeed Lazaro Cardenas next year) with a forthright denunciation of the present expropriation policy, he created a sensation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TRADE: Visitor to Mexico | 3/20/1939 | See Source »

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