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Word: bouncers (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...general rule, a tough barroom bouncer figures to hang a shanty on the most rambunctious college guy. After the brawly bouncing around that occurred last week in Philadelphia's Municipal Stadium, the rule still stood...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Beer Barrel Palooka | 9/25/1939 | See Source »

...London, Marion Lovell, a onetime chorine who had run to fat, got so mad she bounced up & down on her boardinghouse bed, finally broke it. When her landlady sued her, her solicitor pleaded: "She is rather a heavy woman; she will obviously need a fairly substantial bed." But Bouncer Lovell...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Jul. 10, 1939 | 7/10/1939 | See Source »

Midget Billy Curtis, 29, 3 ft. 6 in., 79 lb., last January married onetime Manhattan nightclub Bouncer Lois De Fee, 19, 6 ft. 4 in., 190 lb. Last week little Billy Curtis, suing his big bride for divorce, complained: "She treated me like a doll...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Jul. 4, 1938 | 7/4/1938 | See Source »

BRANDY FOR HEROES-Jack Kofoed-Button ($3). Picturesque biography, in the beery-teared Gene Fowler tradition, of a forgotten fighting Irishman of Manhattan's roaring '60s, one John Morrissey, who rose from a brothel bouncer to underworld boss to heavyweight champion to Tammany State senator, founded Saratoga Springs' famed Casino...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fiction: Recent Books: Feb. 28, 1938 | 2/28/1938 | See Source »

Married. Lois De Fee, 19, onetime bouncer in Manhattan's Dizzy Club who stands 6 ft. 4 in., weighs 190 lb.; to 3½-ft., 79-lb. Midget Bill Curtis, 29; in Miami...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press, Jan. 31, 1938 | 1/31/1938 | See Source »

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