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Word: exclaims (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Good Friday morning, a gracious, energetic, long-legged lady swept into an office on Manhattan's Fifth Avenue to finger two swatches of sheer blue woolen cloth and exclaim to a cackling bevy of fashion reporters: "Isn't it nice that we chose shades which look so well together...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WOMEN: ORACLE | 4/17/1939 | See Source »

Honest Joe had never left Australia until he represented his country at the Royal Jubilee in 1935, where he was so awed when he first saw Queen Mary that he could but exclaim: "Magnificent! Magnificent!" Last week he left his country for good, leaving behind his wife, whom he called "his right-hand man," and his "cricket team": eleven children...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AUSTRALIA: DEATH OF HONEST JOE | 4/17/1939 | See Source »

...among them British Foreign Secretary Viscount Halifax, Chancellor of the Exchequer Sir John Simon, the Ambassadors of Italy, France, Russia, Brazil-had begun to arrive, 50 chairs reserved for the missing Germans had been removed and table seatings rearranged. Informed of the boycott, Prime Minister Chamberlain was heard to exclaim: "How stupid!" But Mr. Chamberlain made no changes in his speech, got a big hand when he came to the "offending" sentence...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: How Stupid! | 12/26/1938 | See Source »

...Cambridge police stood by calmly, but one of the preservers of the law was heard to exclaim, "We have enough to do, without standing around watching millionaires' sons ride around in snappy cars and walk in the Square in their birthday suits...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Polar Supporters Exercise in Snow On River's Bank | 11/28/1938 | See Source »

...Bucharest last week, the lying in state of Her late Majesty was in the ornate Byzantine Hall of her Cotroceni Palace, the same hall in which, when giving audience to foreigners she was wont to exclaim as Queen, "I designed this hall. You have admired it, yes. Ah, but you should have seen it when my husband, King Ferdinand, was laid out there at the far end in Death-it was beautiful!" The ladies of the Court, by express command of the Dowager Queen, mourned her not in black but in a color she had described as violet Cardinal. While...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUMANIA: Stalin & Marie | 8/1/1938 | See Source »

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