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Word: custards (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Custard. Custard is this. It has aches, aches when. Not to be. Not to be narrowly. This makes a whole little hill...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Stem's Way | 9/11/1933 | See Source »

...first two days of a race, I find, are the hardest; after that I get accustomed to it. But we have to eat a tremendons amount to keep us going. My average diet per day is about four steaks, eight or ten lamb chops, and lots of milk, custard, salad, and vegetables. We only get from two and a half to three hours of sleep...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: McNamara, Veteran Six-Day Bike Racer, Has Ridden Over 100,000 Miles in Grinds--Daily Diet Includes Steaks, Chops | 4/24/1933 | See Source »

...famed for lavender shirts, long telegrams, long-distance telephone calls, frequent unreasonableness. He sent a long complaining telegram to Fannie Brice because she left his Follies a month before she was to have a baby. He owned six custard-colored Rolls-Royces, hunted in Canada with five Indian guides, traveled in a private railroad car, kept a private barber and a succession of private chefs. His favorite food was terrapin. Pressagents complained because he telephoned them at 7 a. m. When a big news story broke the day he sailed for Europe, his name failed to appear on the first...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: Glorifier's End | 8/1/1932 | See Source »

...belongs to Alpha Delta Phi Fraternity, an organization called Skull & Snakes, and the Board of Athletic Control. In May he was elected Captain of the track team. He has no special training methods. He eats what he likes until three hours before a meet when he gobbles steak, tea, custard. Calm, almost lethargic, Eastman's style of running is in character. He contradicts the Indian maxim which says: "White man, body make legs go; red man, legs make body go." His shoulders lilt with his stride but his body does not move and strain, his glasses never wobble...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: California's Year | 7/11/1932 | See Source »

...girl fancier; in Hollywood. Born in Canada, a blacksmith's son with operatic aspirations, he emigrated to the U. S., became a boilermaker and choir-singer. After going to Hollywood in 1911, he developed such stars as Gloria Swanson, Charles Chaplin, Wallace Beery, Ben Turpin, originated the cinema custard...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Apr. 4, 1932 | 4/4/1932 | See Source »

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