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Word: blanking (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...called Great Laughter. Like Senator Norris she lived some of her early years in Ohio. At Washington University (St. Louis) she was a vigorous undergraduate, participating in sports and endless extra-curricular activities. Her first rejection slips came from the Saturday Evening Post, to which she tried to sell blank verse masques. She studied Anglo-Saxon at Columbia in 1911, worked as a waitress and shop girl to prepare her for novels you've seen on the screen. In 1935 she regained her figure by "taking no food with her meals...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SPOTLIGHTER | 11/14/1936 | See Source »

...rely on ready-made material for your sermons. Anybody can open a can and warm up the contents. Have a blank book always handy to jot down thoughts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Don'ts for Preachers | 11/9/1936 | See Source »

...polling place, where he was registered as "A. M. Landon, oil and gas business," Alf Landon & wife cast blank ballot after blank ballot for the photographers. On the way to the two-room office with "Alf M. Landon" on the doors of the Citizens National Bank Building, the Nominee had to stop time & again to shake hands with old friends. Most of them called him "Alf" or "Governor," but a few addressed him as "Mr. President...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Election Results: President-Reject | 11/9/1936 | See Source »

Candidates. Only major candidate to report any personal campaign expenditures was Franklin D. Roosevelt. On a mimeographed blank he scrawled in his own hand under the heading Receipts, "None." Under the heading Expenditures...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CAMPAIGN: Money, Money, Money | 11/2/1936 | See Source »

...most other Western Union epistolary innovations in the past quarter century, free love was originated by Vice President John Calvin Willever. Now 71, Mr. Willever has been with Western Union longer than any man now in active service. The name J. C. Willever has appeared on every Western Union blank since 1916-more than 5,000,000,000 times. In 1910, when the late Theodore N. Vail blazed into Western Union for a brief term as president, Mr. Willever al ready had the longest service record of any major executive. For years he had been trying io sell the Night...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Free Love | 11/2/1936 | See Source »

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