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Word: dustman (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...most appealing kind of publishing. Some of the latest copies of the Express to reach the U. S. were filled with their usual budget of post-crisis news: the Vicar of Southwold had seen a genuine sea monster offshore, a dog was tried for biting a dustman, a Wiltshire schoolmistress had found a mushroom over eleven inches wide. And across an entire page the Express splashed a row of grinning British faces, exhorted: "GET THE MONDAY MORNING SMILE...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Curious Fellow | 11/28/1938 | See Source »

...Andrews, Scotland, made a creditable first drive of 200 yds. (Eight years ago his brother Edward of Wales all but whiffed his presidential drive.) Next day York played for fun, was interrupted first by a nursemaid leisurely pushing a perambulator across his course, then by the town dustman trundling his cart...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Oct. 6, 1930 | 10/6/1930 | See Source »

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