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Word: beene (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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He had been arrested on a charge of second-degree burglary for breaking into a neighbor's home, making off with two caged birds and a radio, which he said were really his. (Case was dismissed.) He had gone to Reno, hoping to persuade Mrs. Knight to drop her...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Knight's Gambit | 12/11/1939 | See Source »

For some three years mountainous Columnist Heywood Broun has been feuding with his little boss, Roy Howard, president and editor of the New York World-Telegram. It all started when Editor Howard turned against the New Deal, leaving Broun to go his leftish way alone. The World-Telegram began to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Transfer | 12/11/1939 | See Source »

Back in August, Tabouis had written: "The Reich Army will join Hungary's General Staff in a common offensive against Rumania." Two weeks later, when Germany invaded Poland, Hungary was neutral. Said Tabouis, two days before Stalin signed a trade agreement with Hitler: "Foreign observers in Berlin learned last...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Aunt Genevi | 12/11/1939 | See Source »

But rarely is Tabouis caught with a false prediction that she cannot balance with a true one. For she has no fear at all of contradicting herself, even in the same article, frequently prophesies happenings that are mutually exclusive. She has been spectacularly right & wrong simultaneously on everything that has...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Aunt Genevi | 12/11/1939 | See Source »

One of Dr. Rathbone's tensest cases: a young woman who complained that she trembled, was stiff in the knees and neck, could not sleep. Dr. Rathbone found that the patient was 30, unmarried, that her fiance had lost his job, that she had been financially ruined by the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: How to Relax | 12/11/1939 | See Source »

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