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Word: crookedness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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THE CROOKED CORONET-Michael Arlen-Doubleday, Doran ($2.50). Since the resounding splash of The Green Hat (1924) seven books have dropped more or less silently from Author Aden's pen. There is no reason why his latest should cause more of a splash than its predecessors. A collection of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fiction: Recent Books: Nov. 22, 1937 | 11/22/1937 | See Source »

"Like Hell" Three days later Japanese invaders and Chinese defenders of the various Shanghai areas and environs subjected them to the most terrific chastisement of the War. The offensive recently prepared by Chinese land forces (TIME, Oct. 18) was launched in ghastly sword-to-bayonet, hand-to-throat scrimmages which...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WAR IN CHINA: Again Liberty Bonds | 10/25/1937 | See Source »

This was the National Amateur Golf Championship, which was being played in the Pacific Northwest (at Portland's Alderwood Country Club) for the first time in history. In a downpour which soaked the players the first day. Oldtimer Francis Ouimet, who won the Amateur in 1914 and again in...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: At Last, Goodman | 9/6/1937 | See Source »

¶ Hats are very tall or very crooked, with few wide brims, many draped berets.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Bugles, Braid & Tinsel | 8/16/1937 | See Source »

The deaf-mutes who attended the convention of the 57-year-old organization last week danced to the music of a five-piece band, which they felt through their feet. They learned that the only "impostor" (a person of sound hearing who poses as deaf to cadge charitable upkeep) to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Discontented Mutes | 8/9/1937 | See Source »

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