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Word: cues (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...lancer whose candid comments on plays and films soon gave Naborhood Theatre Guide a small reputation among half-a-dozen similar guides. By 1934 Glankoff's little sheet had spread to the East Side, had a few hundred subscribers at $1 a year, had changed its name to Cue...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Gentlemen All | 8/21/1939 | See Source »

Auto manufacturers saw more trouble ahead: 19 other States with chain-store taxes may take the cue from Colorado and submit their own bills for license fees. If such taxes can be made to stick they will play hob with the entire system of automobile distribution, not to mention other articles similarly merchandised...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Colorado's Billing | 7/24/1939 | See Source »

...Administration's main preparations for a drive against Depression were made at hearings of the Temporary National Economic (monopoly) Committee. The cue for them was given by Franklin Roosevelt himself. To Wyoming's Senator Joseph O'Mahoney, the Committee's chairman, he wrote...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: STATE OF BUSINESS: New Offensive? | 5/29/1939 | See Source »

Fair President Grover Whalen unctuously gave a cue which good Navy wives hardly needed. Said he: "The general public interest comes first. . . . The advisability of [the ships'] presence elsewhere is fully realized...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARMY & NAVY: She to the West | 4/24/1939 | See Source »

...stooge, Stinker Murdoch, made a batter of mainly carbolic acid and turpentine for some cakes to discourage an unwanted guest. The batter was to be called Askitoff. In mixing it they professed to spill some on the carpet, whereupon the dirt magically disappeared. This was, Askey's cue to crack "Askitoff will take it off." Thereafter Askey began repeating the crack several times in each broadcast...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Askitoff (Adv.) | 3/13/1939 | See Source »

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