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Word: crookedness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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> Apprehensive lest they be made the victims of the fanciest sort of diplomatic feint, in London and Paris Lord Halifax and Premier Daladier sat tight, kept their guns trained on one enemy at a time-the Nazis. There would be plenty of time to see if an amazing double cross...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: Cross Into Crusade? | 12/18/1939 | See Source »

"We followed the forest across a savage, rocky plateau full of heather down into a long crooked valley.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World War: In the Vosges | 12/18/1939 | See Source »

Neither Producer Pasternak nor anybody else could foresee what Samuel S. Hinds (who was the father who played with fireworks in You Can't Take It With You) would do to Destry Rides Again. As a top-hatted, bespectacled, tobacco-chawing old mayor of Bottle Neck, and a crooked...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Dec. 18, 1939 | 12/18/1939 | See Source »

The only light was from the candles and they were set close down to the tables so that the floor was in shadow. That was what made the huge birthday cake seem as though it were floating through the air when the hostess carried it through the crooked aisles up...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE VAGABOND | 12/14/1939 | See Source »

The goings-on involve the antic humor of dead Uncle Ambrose, who was so crooked, says one of the brand-new gags, he had to be screwed into his grave. To send his grinning ghost into ectospasms, cinemaddicts into delicious shivers, Uncle's post-mortem instructions command his loving...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Nov. 27, 1939 | 11/27/1939 | See Source »

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