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Word: doesn (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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While the jury was out, reporters at the press table got sorry for pallid, sobbing Miss Hofmann. They bought some lipstick for her, learned that she doesn't use lipstick. After the jury reported, Judge Knox said he was sorry, too, but would have to make an example of her. For her: four years: Mechanic Voss, six years; Friends Rumrich and Glaser, two each...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Wages of Sin | 12/12/1938 | See Source »

...almost silly," Odets went on, "to have to be defending the theme of love for a play. Popular songs and motion pictures are occupied with practically nothing else. But in a serious play ... it apparently strikes some as not being enough; it doesn't 'count.' It isn't 'important.' . . . The roots of love and the meaning of it in the present world need surely to be comprehended as much as the effect of a strike on its activists. (In fact, I am hoping to prove in a future play, The Silent Partner, that love...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: Knight Errant | 12/12/1938 | See Source »

George Washington Hill gives little or no damn whether he gets publicity or whether he doesn't. He knows he is good, doesn't have to be told so, is ready to admit it when asked. His itemized admission of his talent for spectacular advertising- as told in court and revealed by Printers' Ink-last month helped to win a $500,000 law suit. One Arthur R. Griswold had had the impertinence to suggest that Mr. Hill's company had stolen an idea for advertising Lucky Strikes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ADVERTISING: It's Toasted | 12/5/1938 | See Source »

...tobacco as it passed through the toasting machines. ... I said to my father, 'There is something to that process and I cannot express it.' He says, 'What do you mean?' I said, 'He cooks it, cooks the tobacco.' My father says, 'That doesn't mean anything, he cooks the tobacco, that doesn't mean anything; there is no sense in that.' . . . A man by the name of Gerson Brown came in the room at that same time and father turned to this fellow and he says, 'Gerson, what...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ADVERTISING: It's Toasted | 12/5/1938 | See Source »

...Chivalry doesn't pay was the lesson learned by a would be Sir Walter Raleigh from Dunster House yesterday afternoon...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SPRAINED ANKLE IS RESULT OF FUNSTER'S POLITENESS | 12/2/1938 | See Source »

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