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Word: dads (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Locke Ober--Ask your Dad or any grad about this old established spot. Universally known, University liked...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Swinging Around the Downtown Loop | 10/23/1936 | See Source »

...police for editing a smut magazine. Further adventures include bumming, bootlegging, another enlistment in the Army, a book of poems which lands him a job in Hollywood, ups & downs in Wall Street, many an amorous passage by the way. Eventually he settles down to run a bookshop, like his Dad, and marries the patient girl who has been waiting for him. Author Paul makes boisterous fun of every U. S. institution and human type his hero encounters, and occasionally his slapstick is effective. On the whole, however, though readers could not have asked for a louder burlesque, they could have...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: A Fig for Cinderella | 7/13/1936 | See Source »

...Judas brings him home," and "Al Jolson and Sonny Boy!" were among the more abusive comments of His Majesty's Loyal Opposition. As Father & Son stiffly and swiftly withdrew, Scottish Laborite John McGovern roared after the Secretary of State for Colonies: "He's following his Dear Old Dad, though he doesn't know where he's going...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Parliament's Week: Mar. 2, 1936 | 3/2/1936 | See Source »

Last week, Ohio State opened its Conference schedule against Northwestern, in a game that might have had a shade more significance if Northwestern had not lost to Purdue fortnight before. Undismayed, college authorities arranged a "Dad's Day" celebration. Male parents of all Ohio State students were welcomed to Columbus by Football Captain Gomer Jones, invited to a banquet. Fathers of football players, on the sidelines wearing the same numerals as their offspring, were introduced to the 43,000-crowd over loudspeakers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Football, Oct. 28, 1935 | 10/28/1935 | See Source »

Died. "Dusty" Matthews, 86, retired fisherman, "friend of King Edward"; in Eastbourne, England. Seeing George V and Queen Mary strolling last spring, Fisherman Matthews pumped the monarch's hand, said: "I'm pleased to meet you, Captain. I knew your mum and dad" (TIME, April...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Aug. 19, 1935 | 8/19/1935 | See Source »

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