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Word: donning (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Uncle Don last week became a wider problem. He started broadcasting for Maltex Cereal over five MBS outlets. His first week on the network won him a few plaudits, but generally the parents were slightly snippy. Said a Western New York Federation of Women's Clubs executive in Buffalo...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Snork, Punk | 10/9/1939 | See Source »

No snork is Uncle Don. When he was a boy (Howard Rice, son of a horseshoe nail salesman), his pals in St. Joseph, Mich, called him "Punk." Now he is a fattish, fiftyish, rheumy-eyed, flashy-dressing showman. As a kid, he learned enough piano chords by ear to get...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Snork, Punk | 10/9/1939 | See Source »

Only once that Don knows about has any child got a whiff of anything but sweetness from him. That was when he was recognized on the street by a tot, after he had had a cocktail. The eager child begged to be lifted up, and once up, kissed Uncle wetly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Snork, Punk | 10/9/1939 | See Source »

Don," she confided. "You taste just like my daddy."

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Snork, Punk | 10/9/1939 | See Source »

Uncle Don makes some $20,000 a year, at his peak (1928-29) made $75,000. But he would part with plenty to be rid of the persistent but apocryphal tale that one day, when he mistakenly thought he was off the air after a particularly luscious cluster of cliches...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Snork, Punk | 10/9/1939 | See Source »

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