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Word: cussedness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Coal-bearing West Virginia was getting its coal on prescription (as other States had to get liquor during Prohibition) because John Llewellyn Lewis and operators in the great Appalachian coal fields had been unable to agree to a new wage contract. There had been no "strike." There was simply an...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Prolonged Abstention | 5/1/1939 | See Source »

In Des Moines the Henry Wallaces were either renowned for their independence, or cussed for their stubbornness. Henry Wallace I, a Presbyterian preacher, launched Wallace's Farmer ("Good Farming. Clear Thinking. Right Living.") at the age of 60 despite the best professional opinion that it would fold in six...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FARMERS: Hay Down | 12/19/1938 | See Source »

WHEN brother Delta Tau Deltas from the University of Florida visit Sam Byrd in New York they still find him playing Dude Lester in Tobacco Road-now going on about the 900th performance-one of the most cussed sons in all the world-a tough, blasphemous kid full of sex...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Most Cussed Son | 12/20/1935 | See Source »

. . . May we not ask, why in hell you didn't tell the world that General MacArthur is a native of Arkansas? Our State is cussed and discussed for everything from illiteracy and share croppers to flood and drought and when something to its credit unexpectedly turns up it should...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Apr. 15, 1935 | 4/15/1935 | See Source »

Bishop Wade, 42, was on his way to Providence, R. I., where he was born, then to Rome to report to the Pope on his see. When he left the South Seas he took a cinema of natives. Australian censors wanted to cut out scenes showing the bare breasts of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Beef; Breasts | 4/8/1935 | See Source »

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