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Word: ceilinged (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Philadelphia is still clucking over the days when Mr. Kent, Clarence Henry Geist (United Gas Improvement) and the late John T. Dorrance (Campbell Soup) had a baseball team of marriageable daughters between them. In the competitive spending which the launching of these nine young women entailed, the Dorrance triumph was...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Kent Quits | 6/15/1936 | See Source »

Blue Bedroom was planned "to give the effect of sleeping on a cloud"-a dark blue rug, fading blue walls, light blue ceiling, plenty of mirrors. Bachelor's Bedroom, to "appeal to a bachelor in search of a bedroom," was painfully ugly, notably in an iron bed "amusingly decorated...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Plenty of Time | 6/8/1936 | See Source »

Before each flight, all commercial airlines presumably avail themselves of the best meteorological information their own or the Department of Commerce's air weather bureaus can provide. Whether a plane takes off usually depends on a unanimous decision by the line's dispatcher, meteorologist and the pilot, who...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jun. 1, 1936 | 6/1/1936 | See Source »

In San Francisco's Shamrock Club, Dancer Betty Blossom swirled onto the floor, swinging a pair of benzine torches. A drunk rose, foolishly pawed at Dancer Blossom. Up went her arm, up in flames went the flimsy papier-mache ceiling. When firemen fought their way in to smother the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Bouncer | 5/25/1936 | See Source »

My ceiling is the sky

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Vagabond | 5/22/1936 | See Source »

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