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Word: booted (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Missouri's "boot heel" region, mules were stripped of their hair, chickens cleanly plucked...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CATASTROPHE: Twisters | 3/28/1938 | See Source »

...lend ye my name, and inspire ye to boot. And besides I'll instruct ye, like me, to intwine The myrtle of Venus with Bacchus' wine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Squeakless Anthem | 2/7/1938 | See Source »

...scarcely gets up to do his dances. His insouciance and absent-mindedness seem very real, and make of him a most likeable comic hero. Evelyn Laye, his English wife, retains her dignity and quiet charm even through the clowning required of her, and does some expert singing to boot. Adele Dixon, conspicious for the daring of her gowns, manages to capture a respectable French accent, French raciness, and French contempt for British beefsteak...

Author: By E. C. B., | Title: The Crimson Playgoer | 12/10/1937 | See Source »

...Aunt Caroline (Constance Collier) is insisting on the British pianist (Ray Noble) who accompanies the madrigal singers. Alyce's final decision, urged on her by benign Lord Marshmorton (Montague Love), that the American occupying the nearby lodge is worth two in the distant Alps and Pianist Noble to boot, wins the sweepstakes for the castle Boots (Moppet Harry Watson), who had been playing the field...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Dec. 6, 1937 | 12/6/1937 | See Source »

...open-spirited, free-hearted and crabbedly vindictive. Artistically the most German of Germans, he spent the major part of his creative life in exile. A gallant, he fell finally in love with, and married, a woman whom he admitted to be not only unattractive, but unlettered and shrewish to boot...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Paradoxical Poet | 11/22/1937 | See Source »

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