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Word: clingingly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...none have been so daring as this, Hannibal swept through the Alps, Schlieffen goose-stepped his Prussians around Belgium, but only Boyer is seeking his objective through the Heart. Unlike Russia's overtures to Finland, the movie-star has already won the confidence of his feminine audience. They will cling to every word as he pictures the poilu answering the call of duty just as Boyer placed his marital vows before Irene Dunne (in "When Tomorrow Comes"). They will soon become convinced that a place in the trenches is almost as glorious as a night of Boyer and Dunne facing...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FROM ALGIERS TO ALABAMA | 11/18/1939 | See Source »

...must come out and claim our rights. We must deserve and get them. The day is past for a hard-of-hearing person to cling to solitude and slink through the world missing half of life because of a false sense of shame. So put on a hearing aid. Wear it with pride, not as a badge of disgrace!" Thus croaked deafened Novelist Rupert Hughes to fellow members of the American Society for the Hard of Hearing who met in Manhattan last week. On his own lapel he proudly wore one of his several electrical hearing aids...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: How's That? | 11/6/1939 | See Source »

American Bantam, Tiny Tim of the streamliners (75 in. wheelbase), enters its third production year with a new Super 4 in two models: coupé & sedan, both convertibles. Prices: $399 to $449. Boast: "a revolutionary road-cling ride...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Motormakers' Holiday | 10/16/1939 | See Source »

...rank & file has hung on through every swing toward Hitlerism. Pondering these tenacious loyalists, a writer in the pinko Nation last week observed: "Genuinely perturbed by the defections around them, they calmly recite Lenin's prophecy: When the locomotive of history takes a sharp turn, only the steadfast cling to the train...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RADICALS: Only the Steadfast | 10/9/1939 | See Source »

Both teams began catching each other's aerials, although unable to cling to those thrown by their own passer. Left tackle Ollie Thompson intercepted for Kirkland. Winthrop immediately retaliated, but the half ended with the ball in the Deacons' possession...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Puritans Tie Deacons O-O in House Playofr | 11/8/1938 | See Source »

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