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Word: bellyful (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Earl Durand watched the posse come up the canyon and cautiously encircle his hideout. After a time, two riflemen (Orville Linabary, 42; Arthur Argento, 46) started across a clearing directly toward him. They had their nerve with them. He let them come within 50 paces, then quickly gave them each...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Beloved Enemy | 4/3/1939 | See Source »

Coatesvilie's pick-up station, which was set up on the airport, could just as well have been set up in a pasture, on a building roof or a hilltop, where towns without flying fields will have to set theirs. Between two 40-foot poles, 50 feet apart, stretched...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: Pick-up | 3/20/1939 | See Source »

Roland Young and his ectoplasms are back again, doing some congenial caper-cutting on the French Riviera in United Artists' "Topper Takes a Trip." Those who missed the original "Topper" should neglect their education no longer, but whip right down to Loew's and have their fill of cigarettes being...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Moviegoer | 3/3/1939 | See Source »

1915 Exposition, who curves and glows and actually "breathes" (by virtue of a string attached to the back of her belly, pulled gently at intervals).

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CALIFORNIA: Western Wonderland | 2/27/1939 | See Source »

Told by an elderly Danish humorist, this modernized version of the Jonah story proceeds in like vein. Its humor comes from breezy folktale slang, matter-of-factness in the miracle scenes, with Jonah fumbling around in the whale's belly like a man looking for a light switch.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Jonah | 2/13/1939 | See Source »

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