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Word: donning (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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At Crosley Field 18,000 agonizing fans crammed into the grandstands. Twisting their scorecards, they watched big Paul Derringer face the formidable bats of Enos Slaughter (.321), Joe Medwick (.333), Johnny Mize (.351) and Don Padgett (.410)-baseball's hardest-hitting quartet. Derringer had won 24 games this year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Red Victory | 10/9/1939 | See Source »

Born. To Yehudi Menuhin, 22, blond, brilliant violinist, and Nola Nicholas Menuhin, 20; a daughter; in San Francisco, Calif. The child, which weighed six pounds, twelve ounces, was given the name Zamira. the Russian word for Peace. Said Father Yehudi, who had watched the operation with a surgical mask over...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Oct. 9, 1939 | 10/9/1939 | See Source »

This is Uncle Don, your Uncle Don,

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

This Uncle Don is the famous, wheezing, wheedling radio character whose sales approach is celebrating children's birthdays over the air. Those he is unable to mention he sometimes calls personally on the telephone. After service like that kids will do anything, even to calling Mother out of the...

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

Pally, hands-&-knees Uncle Don has a club in which not only Sistie & Buzzie Dall but Shirley Temple are members, and full membership is earned by sending in for tokens of every product Uncle Don plugs. One season he plugged 14, and full-fledged members eventually cost their parents a...

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

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