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Word: comely (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Moonfaced" am I? Because of that three minutes I did in Tobacco Road as a result of my run-in with John Barton, I've been resigned to being called "Jeeter" the rest of my days, but now you have to come along and call me "moonfaced" (TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Dec. 4, 1939 | 12/4/1939 | See Source »

...White House comes either Mississippi's Senator Pat Harrison or North Carolina's Bob Doughton, fresh from a lunch with Franklin Roosevelt. (Sometimes they come out together, but this is usually considered bad stagecraft...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: New Twist | 12/4/1939 | See Source »

...hope of the Committee to make inquiries into the violations of civil liberties during the present and the last wars and to publish these in a pamphlet. In this connection Fleishman stated that undoubtedly the Browder question and the Dies Committee would come under consideration...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Student Union Will Probe Violations of Civil Liberty | 12/1/1939 | See Source »

...tells how his recent sickness was due to the rotten hours, the long jumps on one nighters, the nervous tension that all musicians live under. He shows how the music business is rotten with commercialism. Booking offices, agents, song pluggers, and the big broadcasting chains all come in for their share of panning. I don't think that there is much doubt that Shaw is absolutely right in what he says about all of this. His only trouble on these points is that he didn't make them strong enough. So far so good. But Shaw goes...

Author: By Michael Levin, | Title: Swing | 12/1/1939 | See Source »

...else would they have published mailing lists enumerating so many members of the administration? Theirs is the most obnoxious kind of endeavor to assassinate the reputation of those who come before it for scrutiny and investigation," Poland concluded

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ELIOT, POLAND SPEAK FOR CIVIL LIBERTIES | 11/29/1939 | See Source »

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