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Word: boys (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...they are capable of out of men whose limitations he understands. "Pink" Harrington is a West Pointer and his No. 2 man is no fuddy-duddy. Howard Hunter spent 18 months with the A. E. F. as an officer in Tulane University's medical unit, was a Boy Scout executive, for ten years a professional fundraiser for Community Chests-picked by Harry Hopkins, who was once an expert in private charitarian money-gathering...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RELIEF: Third H | 1/30/1939 | See Source »

...William Hall of No. 58 North 16th Street, Harrisburg, Pa. last week rented his old horse-drawn victoria for its quadrennial job: to carry Pennsylvania's Governor to his inaugural. In the rented relic outgoing Governor George Howard Earle and incoming Governor Arthur Horace ("Breaker Boy") James rode to the State Capitol, where Republicans formally retrieved control of the State from the Democrats who held it for four years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PENNSYLVANIA: Republicans' Return | 1/30/1939 | See Source »

From their pet playwright the glittering audience got only Grade B Coward. One superb, side-splitting burlesque of an English charity pageant is probably the funniest sketch that Coward has ever written. Two of the songs, Mad About the Boy and The Stately Homes of England...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: First-Night Fever | 1/30/1939 | See Source »

Died. Edward J. Watson, 77, who as a telegraph messenger in the early 80s inspired the tales which Wisconsin's late Author-Governor George Wilbur Peck wrote up in the Peck's Bad Boy series; after long illness; in Milwaukee...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Jan. 30, 1939 | 1/30/1939 | See Source »

...this bloodless movie. The film's makers have had to go afield from the old love-interest, which is a pretty wet gag in Hollywood now, and have substituted a branch of the Navy as the real hero. So they escape some of the soggier romance of Boy and Girl. The scene where the sub-chaser sneaks through the mine-filled fog and destroys an enemy submarine at its base is very well done. An unworthy companion is "The Jones Family" who are down on the farm or in the old homestead or somewhere...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Moviegoer | 1/27/1939 | See Source »

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