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Word: faces (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...This man, once so agile and fox-faced, smartly uniformed and lordly sinister in manner, sat as if in a daze. In appearance he is the most crushed of all the defendants. He has lain for at least ten months in the same prison cells to which he has consigned so many others. He sits lackadaisically in a rear seat of the courtroom. He is dressed in a dark suit. He is only 47, but his hair has whitened in the past year, and his face is lined with despair...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: Lined With Despair | 3/14/1938 | See Source »

...both steering wheels flapping idly, both gas pedals down to the floor. The Vagabond tactfully arranged his harem around him to form a feminine cushion in case of a crash. At once he realized he had made a blunder. Mary's Dubble-Bubble chewing gum now exploded in his face with every third or fourth stroke of her jaws, spraying him with minty mixture...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Vagabond | 3/12/1938 | See Source »

Teatime is a real treat. You actually come face to face with one Mrs. Hortense Odium, who is going to take you "behind the scenes" at Bonwit Teller. Lowell Thomas, the Herald Tribune, Radio City Music Hall, they're all waiting...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Five Dollars Will Get a Harvard Man Keys to New York in Spring Vacation | 3/10/1938 | See Source »

Tomorrow Kerensky, who has divided his residence in exile between France and England, leaves for Providence, R. I., and after that a two months' tour of this country. He is extremely interested in how this country is democratically solving the economic problems which face...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Kerensky, Ex-Russian Leader, Puts Faith in Democracy Here | 3/10/1938 | See Source »

Japan's activities in China, he said, can be explained by the triple formula of "food, face, and fear"--food for Japan's dense population; a sense of "face" that demands complete naval supremacy; and fear of growing Communism in her huge neighbor...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: REPORTS ON JAPAN FASCISM UNTRUE, HINDMARSH SAYS | 3/10/1938 | See Source »

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