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Word: doughnuts (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...would be willing to bet my head against the hole in a doughnut that it is not transferred...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Reorganization Renaissance | 3/28/1938 | See Source »

Married. Mrs. Emily Flamm Gilchrist, 70, who seven years ago inherited $2,000,000 from her lumberman husband, William A. Gilchrist; to Roe Wells, 50, $25,000-per-year vice president of Doughnut Corp. of America; in Valparaiso, Ind. Said he: "Mrs. Wells and I have agreed to pool our interests and carry on. We shall be very happy working together...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Jan. 24, 1938 | 1/24/1938 | See Source »

...Doughnut shaped bath soap, to be worn on a cord around a bather's neck to keep it from escaping...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: The Path of Progress: Dec. 6, 1937 | 12/6/1937 | See Source »

...first (1903), Jimmy next (1905), and Bossprankster Harry last (1908). Their concocted whimsy extends offstage. They attended the Hollywood premiere of Wee Willie Winkie in kilts, once cooled their feet in a Beverly Hills municipal fountain. Sojourning in Manhattan, they like to sit in Lindy's, eating bagels (doughnut-shaped hard bread) and watch Broadway...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Oct. 11, 1937 | 10/11/1937 | See Source »

...success, from a planetary point of view, depends upon his bringing together before midnight, a pair of youthful lovers. Dinwiddy's attention settles on a cirl, Caroline Wilson (Eleanore Whitney) who, hiding in the honeymoon cottage in the furniture department when the store detective chases her for doughnut stealing, has begun a romance with a sheet music salesman, Terry Keith (Johnny Downs). Obstacles to their coalition and therefore to Tweep's and Dinwiddy's are: 1) efforts of Store Manager Truelove Spencer (Grady Sutton) to annex the girl himself; 2) Miss Tweep's cynical attitude toward...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: May 10, 1937 | 5/10/1937 | See Source »

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