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Word: dont (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...DONT SCOLD STOP WILL EXPLAIN STOP CURLEY WILL WIN IN BOSTON AND QUINN IN CAMBRIDGE STOP WALKER WILL CARRY NEW YORK

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HUEY PREDICTS VICTORY FOR OURLEY, QUINN AND WALKER | 11/5/1929 | See Source »

...would you have done?" Thereupon the children debate until they discover how Child Gompers and cousin could have settled their dispute, avoided their spanking. Says Dr. Jones: "The new scheme . . is far more effective than the passing along of a series of 'do's' and 'dont's' all ready-made by adults...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Good Citizens | 4/8/1929 | See Source »

...working on the stage dont' care so much about the activities of the censors as the people who come to see us. When the newspapers are full of stories about champagne baths and moral turpitude dragged on the stage everyone crowds to the theatre to see what it's all about. The censors make the boxoffice receipts pile up and so we never object to them and sometimes are glad to see them, not that we do see them as a rule. If a show gets the wrong kind of publicity oftentimes nothing but a few censors hastily called...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "Chilblains, Not Sunburns" Would Have Been Eve's Due Says Fanny Brice in Rage Against Managers Who Skimp Fuel | 3/2/1926 | See Source »

...expense of giving still greater publicity to their fallacies, I am constrained to deny them all! The moon has not been, is not, and never will be a gong. Having for some time concentrated in astronomy--except on foggy nights--I feel quite free to say that John Dont Passout has taken great liberties with the moon. Speaking purely on behalf of that astral body, I wish to state that howsoever much it resembles a gong, a wash boiler, or an ash can, it assuredly IS not. Those who know anything at all about moons realize perfectly well that they...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE CRIME | 5/14/1925 | See Source »

...Dont start out for New Haven in an automobile, until you make sure that its headlights conform with the law!" This warning was issued by the Connectient State Police yesterday in a circular letter which was sent out from Hartford headquarters...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CONNECTICUT POLICE WARN AGAINST BRIGHT HEADLIGHTS | 11/21/1924 | See Source »

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