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Word: crowings (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...longer feasible; a jester is not to be trusted with the salt. Arthur was in, of, and for the bowels of Lampy, but his Einstein united the venerable magazine, too well. Year by year Plympton street observers have heard the dinner boll ring, and observed the Jester and his crow grow fatter and fatter on Arthur's food, till the bright sparklings of pristine wit grow don and failed, overlaid with the thick roll of fleshy matter...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ROAST IBIS | 10/31/1932 | See Source »

...protest to President Taft which read: "It isn't that we object to real poetry but Governor Thatcher's poetry is objectionable from every point of view. Something should be done by those in authority." Governor Thatcher's critics at the Tivoli Hotel parodied as follows: Crow, cocks, crow, from sunset until dawn; Yelp, dogs, yelp, in torture unto me; Moo, cows, moo; Croak, frogs, croak; Make life a hell ; 'tis all we ask of thee. Nominee Thatcher was first elected to the House ten years ago. In Georgia, Charles Robert Crisp, Congressman famed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: Makings of the 73rd | 9/19/1932 | See Source »

...socialite were performed last week over National Broadcasting Co. chains. They were notable because: C, "This Rose Reminds Me," by Stephen Collins Foster ("My Old Kentucky Home"), had long been lost. Composer Foster (1826-64) wrote it for Thomas U. Rice, pioneer U. S. minstrel, famed for his "Jim Crow" act. Minstrel Rice died before the song could be used. Lately "This Rose Reminds Me" was rediscovered by Dean J. Rice of Salt Lake City, grandson of Minstrel Rice. Last week it was played on NBC's Carnation Contented Program, by string ensemble with harp...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: International: Rose, Heart, Garden | 8/8/1932 | See Source »

Once tutor to Rumania's present King Carol II, foxy old Professor Nicholas Jorga could not repress last week a public crow...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUMANIA: Joyful Jorga | 5/2/1932 | See Source »

Often dollar-hostile, the newsorgans of Baron Beaverbrook veered around like weathercocks last week to crow the praises of dollars in general and of newly-arrived Ambassador Andrew William Mellon, dollar Croesus...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Make Thy Loins Strong | 4/25/1932 | See Source »

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