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Word: dished (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Thoreau. As the Times's critic, he has by far the greatest single influence on box office. Cultivated, impishly able to carve a "turkey" with the best of them, he is now & then a sucker for high-toned emptiness, sometimes recoils from the sweaty and disagreeable. His perfect dish: Our Town...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: Makers & Breakers | 5/1/1939 | See Source »

...favorite dish, Fish...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Hold Barred | 4/24/1939 | See Source »

Wheaties' style of reporting ("Crack! A hot liner over second. Boy, Ducky-Wucky Medwick must have had a heaping dish of Wheaties this morning.") has become a running gag among baseball players, but it sells. The biggest (230 Ibs.) and the best Wheaties' announcer, 37-year-old Arch McDonald from Arkansas, adds a lingo of his own. A baseball buff from boyhood and a baseball announcer for the last eight seasons, Arch McDonald has the job of covering the home games of the World Champion Yankees and the Giants this season over WABC. He will collect a salary...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: COMPLIMENTS OF WHEATIES ET AL. | 4/17/1939 | See Source »

Alan Curtis and his orchestra will dish it out for Goldcoasters and guests from 10 to 2 o'clock Friday night at the Adams House winter formal...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Curtis Plays for 'Coasters At Winter Formal on Friday | 3/14/1939 | See Source »

...career; now that that career is ending, its turning point stands out. In 1922 Hearst was at his zenith as a publisher. He owned 20 newspapers in 13 of the largest U. S. cities, with Universal Service and INS to flash them worldwide news, King Features Syndicate to dish out comics and boilerplate philosophy, the scandalsheet American Weekly to boost Sunday circulation into the multimillions. He had a string of magazines, a newsreel, a motion-picture company. He had the world's highest paid stable of writers and editors. And he made more money than any other publisher before...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Dusk at Santa Monica | 3/13/1939 | See Source »

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