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Word: betweeners (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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With Tony ("Are Yuh Listenin'?") Wons absent from radio poetizing, the coziest parlor voice in U. S. radio nowadays is that of Ted (Between the Bookends) Malone, sympathizer, poesy reader, prattler extraordinary. When Ted Malone comes visiting, the average U. S. woman-of-the-house finds herself as politely...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Pilgrim | 10/30/1939 | See Source »

The divergence between these two descriptions of business was more than half political. Under Secretary Hanes spoke for the Pollyanna wing of the Administration, which is not at all anxious to throw any stumbling blocks in the way of recovery that the Government does not have to pay for. Secretary...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: STATE OF BUSINESS: Boomology | 10/30/1939 | See Source »

Two men who had nothing to say, Siegfried Sassoon and Robert Graves, but their silence was eloquent. As frontline officers between 1914 and 1918, their experiences with the universal human activity gave rise to the two straightest and grimmest accounts of World War I produced in England, respectively Memoirs of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Noonday & Night | 10/30/1939 | See Source »

No murder story, although it almost turns into one, As for the Woman is the sinister tale of a vacation love-affair between an Oxford undergraduate and a doctor's wife. "There are few human relationships more complicated than a love affair between a young man and an older...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Seventh Commandment | 10/30/1939 | See Source »

Lightwood, a first novel, is the account of 16 years (1874-1890) of war between a northern lumber corporation and squatters who, since the early 19th Century, have inhabited the pine barrens of southern Georgia. It carries the Corn family (squatters) through the whole of it-lawsuits, fraudulent surveying, sabotage...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Cold Corn Bread | 10/30/1939 | See Source »

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