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Word: bellyful (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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The accompanying piece on the Fenway bill, "F Man", is a pleasingly light tale of the "yokel boy makes good" variety, which managed to evoke even a few belly-laughs. It is shallow and frothy, and knows it. An "F man", incidentally, is the next thing to a "G man...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Moviegoer | 4/6/1936 | See Source »

The hot belly of the sun last week erupted in an acne of sunspots, a chain of splotches 160,000 miles long. This was the strongest sunspot activity since the sun entered a new cycle two years ago (TIME, Nov. 13, 1933), started climbing irregularly toward the intensity peaks due...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Sunspots & Radio | 12/16/1935 | See Source »

Police cars, press cars and ambulances screamed toward the scene of the latest event in the career of Arthur ("Dutch Schultz") Flegenheimer, New York City's most notorious racketeer, the nation's most prosperous post-Repeal criminal and the one big hoodlum against whom the U. S. Government...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Triple Zero | 11/4/1935 | See Source »

Into a beet field just off the racing course at Santa Ana, Calif, one day last week dived a big metal airplane in a swirl of black smoke. Plunking its belly down on the soft earth it suffered no more damage than a crumpled landing gear, dented fuselage, broken propeller...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: Record Into Beet Patch | 9/23/1935 | See Source »

In Monett, Mo., 200 members of the United Browning Families assembled for a basket supper, quartet singing, a speech by State Legislator Lewis Browning, and discussion of the erection of a Browning Memorial Building. Organized last year, U. B. F. draws most of its members from Browning's Valley, Mo...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Sep. 16, 1935 | 9/16/1935 | See Source »

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