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Word: dishing (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Memphis, Dr. Edward H. Carey, president of the American Medical Association, stated that just as much iron could be absorbed by the system from sucking a 20-penny nail as from eating a dish of spinach...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Sequels | 5/29/1933 | See Source »

...Coney Island, Joseph Tortora, 33, gorged himself with antipasto and spaghetti, rose from the table, made a sweeping gesture of satisfaction, slipped on a string of spaghetti, upset the table, broke the spaghetti dish, fell into the debris, gashed himself deeply, went to the hospital faint from loss of blood...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, May 8, 1933 | 5/8/1933 | See Source »

...either hand, the red bulk of the buildings seem to forbid his premeditations; still the Vagabond envisions beyond them his day of country pleasures, sure of fruition, his sunlit dalliance, and his final quart of ale, dish for a Ring...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Student Vagabond | 5/2/1933 | See Source »

...consists of 78 syllables, and 169 letters (in Greek). It is denned in Liddell & Scott's Greek-English Lexicon (edition 1863) as "the name of a dish compounded of all kinds of dainties, fish, flesh, and fowl." What a way to spell hash...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, May 1, 1933 | 5/1/1933 | See Source »

...Sequoia. Because it was chilly on deck the President and the Prime Minister sat below talking, talking, talking, mostly about disarmament and how to bring the moribund Geneva Conference back to life and a happy ending. Back at the White House Mrs. Roosevelt scrambled some eggs in a chafing dish for family supper...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Receiving the World | 5/1/1933 | See Source »

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