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Word: curtise (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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To become Vice President affects men as much as coming of age, getting married, going to jail, or meeting death. Thomas R. Marshall resignedly turned jester. Calvin Coolidge, until reprieved by Warren Harding's death, grew colder and stiffer day after day. Charles Gates Dawes flared up in boisterous...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: VICE PRESIDENCY: Mr. Commonsense | 6/3/1935 | See Source »

Like other recent Vice Presidents, John Garner was invited to attend Cabinet meetings. Unlike Messrs. Coolidge, Dawes and Curtis before him, he not only attended regularly, but spoke his mind forcefully. Such meetings are naturally as secret as they can be made. Hence only an occasional leak disclosed the part...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: VICE PRESIDENCY: Mr. Commonsense | 6/3/1935 | See Source »

One noon last March 500 civic-minded Utica matrons crowded into the dining room of the Utica Hotel abuzz with talk over Utica's latest, hottest club idea. No men were to be invited, but husbands clamored so loudly they were finally permitted to fill up a few tables...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Women | 5/27/1935 | See Source »

Exactly how Women Investors, Inc. was going to accomplish all this, it would not say last week. It was not going to give investment advice to women.* It was not going to conduct a woman's lobby in Washington, at least for the present. But it was going after...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Women | 5/27/1935 | See Source »

Engaged. Cary William Bok (assistant secretary-treasurer of Curtis Publishing Co.), 30, younger son of the late Edward Bok, grandson of the late Cyrus Hermann Kotzschmar Curtis; and Helene Boericke, Philadelphia socialite.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, May 20, 1935 | 5/20/1935 | See Source »

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