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Word: donning (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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"Well," the voice replied, after a bit of deliberation, "it's all right to say 'H' if I don't know what it means."

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Crime | 1/27/1939 | See Source »

Next Shot. Where the House left off, the Senate prepared to begin. Chairman Adams of the Senate subcommittee in charge of the bill said that he thought the appropriation might be cut as low as $600,000,000. A dozen Senators were eager to cram the bill with amendments against...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RELIEF: Whoops of Righteousness | 1/23/1939 | See Source »

Arriving in Manhattan after six weeks in Hollywood "for me 'olidays," blonde, blowzy British Comedienne Grade Fields whistled, whooped, kicked her legs in the air, dunked doughnuts obligingly for photographers, said: "I've got a lot of funny noises. I'm a bit nuts, but don'...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Jan. 23, 1939 | 1/23/1939 | See Source »

As hefty, two-fisted* Author Ernest Hemingway sat in a swank Manhattan nightspot, one Eddie Chapman, broker, sneered: "So you're Hemingway? . . , Tough guy, huh?" and pushed him in the face. Said a friend at Hemingway's table: "Swat him but don't draw blood." Hemingway swatted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Jan. 23, 1939 | 1/23/1939 | See Source »

Radcliffe girls smoke pipes during the exam period because it's cheaper, and because "we don't inhale," it was learned from usually reliable Shepard Street sources last night.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: RADCLIFFE TAKIES TO PIPES; COLLEGE AUTHORITIES KICK | 1/16/1939 | See Source »

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