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Word: billye (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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An elephant paraded in Manhattan's Wall Street last week. All over the city billboards broke out in a rash of promises that New Yorkers would soon see something BIGGER THAN A SHOW-BETTER THAN A CIRCUS. The Hippodrome was boarded up behind signs which warned: SHHH! To a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: Mad Mahout | 10/28/1935 | See Source »

An Oklahoma farmband, Pinky Tomlin can look either forty or his actual twenties, depending on the camera used and the amount of re-touching. He was a professed hick and already losing his tin, flame-colored hair rapidly when Delta Tau Delta at the University of Oklahoma pledged him. That...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Tunes, Scripts Plagued Them in, College--And Still Do | 9/30/1935 | See Source »

This is truly a matter to view with alarm, and without banter we suggest that some of our more ethnocentric loyalists and propagandists climb to the top of Grizzly Peak and bay back at Boston high society in the hill-billy jargon that is all they seem able to understand...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE PRESS | 9/19/1935 | See Source »

All replied by shuffling administrative officers. Dean Philip Lee Mull, 63, of Mississippi, gave up his job to Dr. Billy Sylvester Guyton, 51, University of Virginia graduate, who became acting dean. Dr. John Nathan Simpson, 66, who founded West Virginia's medical school in 1902 and has been dean...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Score on Schools | 9/9/1935 | See Source »

Eight other schools change deans this autumn. At Yale, intramural policies forced out Dr. Milton Charles Winternitz, 50, brought in Dr. Stanhope Bayne-Jones, 47. Wisconsin's new dean, Dr. William Shainline ("Dr. Billy") Middleton, 45, sharpens students' wits by passing a brown derby from dullard to dullard...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Score on Schools | 9/9/1935 | See Source »

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