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Word: comely (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...wounded. The Albanian Army vanished into the fastnesses of Albania's Dinaric Alps where, unless the Sons of the Eagle (as the Albanians call themselves) have changed since the Turks dealt with them for five centuries, they can be expected to put up a guerrilla warfare until Kingdom Come...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ALBANIA: BIRTH & DEATH | 4/17/1939 | See Source »

...cowboy adventure and hearty-uncle promise of dandy premiums in return for mailed-in cereal box tops, bread labels, candy wrappers. Hapless parents, besides footing the bills, have a job on their hands in getting their supercharged, excited youngsters to bed. Result is that children's programs come in for persistent beefing, not only by U. S. parents but by the more-feared Federal Communications Commission...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Bedtime Bedlam | 4/17/1939 | See Source »

This was the closest scandal had ever come to Hartford Electric Light Co. and it went no further. Viggo Bird resigned at once and Samuel Ferguson resumed the presidency, announced that the embezzlement did not involve the utility but New London Northern R. R. Co., of which Viggo Bird was treasurer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PERSONNEL: BORROWED BONDS | 4/17/1939 | See Source »

...secretary that her employer wanted her to arrange a $10,000 loan from the bank. She used her power of attorney to obtain it and Drexel bought $100,000 worth of stock on margin in Bird's name. Before Bird could extricate himself, the crash had come and he was short $239,000. He borrowed that amount from a friend...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PERSONNEL: BORROWED BONDS | 4/17/1939 | See Source »

...Manhattan, Nurse Marian Cribbs was awakened by someone tweaking her big toe. Tweaker was a man who said he had come to rob her. Instead he kissed her foot, tried to kiss her. Resourceful Nurse Cribbs reminded him it was Lent, shooed him out, promised to meet him later. At the rendezvous he met police...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Apr. 17, 1939 | 4/17/1939 | See Source »

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