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Word: callings (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...wish to call your attention to what TIME of July 25 published about our beloved late Queen Marie...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Aug. 15, 1938 | 8/15/1938 | See Source »

Liable to life imprisonment (Maine's maximum murder penalty) if convicted, Defendant Carroll sat calm, tight-lipped in court. His lawyers, presumably hoping to prove that Accuser Dwyer is a pathological liar, planned to call 62 witnesses. Among them: Barbara Carroll...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Sixth Horror Story | 8/15/1938 | See Source »

...followed the Dewey proceedings with an expert eye. He bristled when defense attorneys thrust on his attention that Defendant Davis, who had agreed to turn State's evidence, had used the jail leaves (arranged by Mr. Dewey's office to permit him to see his doctor) to call also on his redheaded actress friend Hope Dare (real name: Rose...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEW YORK: Political Juice | 8/15/1938 | See Source »

Chicago Daily News Cartoonist Vaughn Richard Shoemaker last week suggested that Father Divine might have occasion to borrow a lawn mower for his new 500-acre estate across the Hudson River from Franklin Roosevelt's "Krum Elbow" (see cut). The possibility of such a call soon became open to question. In New York...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Aug. 15, 1938 | 8/15/1938 | See Source »

...sick of the Peloponnesian War when it started. Twenty years later, in 411 B.C., he was even sicker. Athens' allies were slipping away; the Syracuse expedition had ended in crushing disaster. But whenever one side suggested peace, the other side was doing too well with the war to call it off. Then Aristophanes wrote Lysistrata. What if all the women of Athens united, seized the Acropolis, told the men they would live resolutely continent till the war ended? Aristophanes suggested that the war would end at once...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Old and Dirty | 8/8/1938 | See Source »

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