Word: expressione
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Perhaps I am getting behind in my knowledge of slang, but where did you get the name "juke box" for nickel phonographs in your article about Glenn Miller? (TIME, Nov. 27). In Michigan, Indiana and Ohio, everyone calls them "Groan Boxes" and the expression, "Flip a nickel in the groan...
Other omissions: the text of the Munich Pact; President Roosevelt's proposal that Germany guarantee neighboring States against aggression, although the blistering Reichstag speech of the Führer in reply to Mr. Roosevelt is given. In effect, the White Book argues that if all the events of the...
"He was equally interested," Dr. Gesell continued, "in the pouting of the European child, of Kafir, Fingo, Malay, Abyssinian, Orang and Chimpanzee. [He found] that discontented primates protrude their lips to an extraordinary degree, Europeans to a lesser degree, but that among young children lip protrusion is characteristic of sulkiness...
Silver-haired, sharp-tongued, zealous Dr. Charles Giffin Pease, founder of the Non-Smokers' Protective League (he used to snatch cigars from the lips of subway smokers), celebrated his 85th birthday in his usual fashion, delivering a good-natured diatribe to newshawks against whiskey, wine, beer, capital punishment, the...
Is there a remedy? Often, Vag realized, the "green-eyed monster" had attacked him, once with disastrous results. He smiled as he recalled that tragic childhood romance. What could be done in the future? Suddenly Vag remembered that the world's greatest dramatist had had something to say on the...