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Word: blonds (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Almost certain of a place on the U. S. team last week was Joe McCluskey, Fordham steeplechaser, who learned about distance running when he was a newspaper delivery boy in Manchester, Conn. The U. S. has the world's record shotputter, Leo Sexton, and a huge blond Californian, Herman Brix, who, experts think, is just as good...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: California's Year | 7/11/1932 | See Source »

...good a painter as he, lives seriously in the Woodstock, N. Y. artist colony. Unmarried Francis Speight teaches at the Pennsylvania Academy. Brusque, satirical Reginald Marsh, Yaleman, is a son of Muralist Fred Dana Marsh, husband of Sculptress Betty Burroughs, son-in-law of Metropolitan Curator Burroughs. Blond Ogden Pleissner, 27, a precisionist from Brooklyn, is the Metropolitan's youngest painter. Older are: Allen Tucker, 65, who has an independent income, a neat wit, and taught for six years at the Art Students' League. Hayley Lever, 55, who is witty too, taught at the Art Students' League...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Drips of Fame | 6/27/1932 | See Source »

...More than flesh can bear," is the reported discovery by Dr. Donald S. Wees of "white Indians with blond hair who live like animals in the Grand Desert of Northeastern Paraguay," according to a statement given out yesterday at the Museum of Comparative Zoology. Repudiating Woes, who claimed to be "a Harvard explorer," the statement characterized him as "an obviously inexperienced amateur" and the publicity he gave out as "a revival of the White Indian hoax...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MUSEUM REPUDIATES WEES, SOUTH AMERICAN EXPLORER | 5/24/1932 | See Source »

...Lansing, Ill., two men entered the Oak Glen Trust & Savings Bank. One was calm, swart, carried a machinegun. The other, nervous, blond, dapper, carried a pistol. The nervous blond was too embarrassed to take money from the cashier's drawer. Said his colleague: "Open the drawer, you lug." Later the blond's gun-hand shook so violently the gun discharged, the bullet going into the floor. Shouted his colleague, no longer calm: "You heat head, put that gun away before you shoot yourself." Said the blond, calmer now: "Quit picking on me. I'm doing the best...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, May 16, 1932 | 5/16/1932 | See Source »

...assistant, he accomplishes this feat sometimes, at other times tries twice and gives up. For the cinema he has done his triple somersault several times: once in Variety, filmed in Berlin's Winter Garden six years ago; once in Polly of the Circus (when he wore a blond wig. doubled for Marion Davies), once in Tarzan of the Apes (doubling for Johnny Weissmuller) and in a slow-motion short, Swing High, soon to be released by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cover Story: Circus | 4/18/1932 | See Source »

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