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Word: beerless (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...readers turned out when Nancy Brown's Column presented the Art Institute with a painting called Street in Brooklyn last year. Column Folks have also contributed to the Detroit Old Newsboys' Charitable Goodfellow Fund, sponsored six Detroit Symphony concerts, helped to reforest northern Michigan, to build a "beerless beer garden" for youngsters...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: Dear Nancy | 12/16/1935 | See Source »

...Author. Though he is much younger (32) and better-looking than Sinclair Lewis (48), Glenway Wescott is almost as birthplace-ridden. In the beerless era, his public farewells to his native State helped keep the U. S. reading public Wisconsin-conscious. He has defined the Middle West as: "A place which has no fixed boundaries, no particular history; inhabited by no one race; always exhausted by its rich output of food, men, and manufactured articles: loyal to none of its many creeds, prohibitions, fads, hypocrisies; now letting itself be governed, now ungovernable." Sprig of an old U. S. family with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Saints | 6/19/1933 | See Source »

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