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Word: factly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...lamentable fact that no matter whom Boston's voters may choose on November 2 as their new mayor, there seems little definite promise of a respite from the city's recent reign of political squalor. Of the six candidates now left in the running, there is just one who by virtue of apparent honesty and only average ability could not fittingly bear the standard of Tammany Hall...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ROTTEN APPLES | 10/25/1937 | See Source »

...Nichols '99, whose supporters hail him as the new Messiah chiefly because he was able to reduce taxes in the boom years of 1926 to 1929. Indeed his lieutenants are handing out literature to show how low the tax rate was in these years, quite oblivious of the fact that falling property valuations renders this evidence somewhat questionable...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ROTTEN APPLES | 10/25/1937 | See Source »

Telling the story of a lady of disrepute who leaps from the oblivion of a Hollywood dive to the magnificence of a Hollywood winter resort, "The Bride Wore Red" gives itself away almost before it starts, so obvious is the plot. In fact the film's greatest asset is the fact that it suffers no illusions as to its own importance. Pleasantly it wends its way, and pleasantly it will affect the cinematic taste of the semi-sentimental moviegoer...

Author: By V. F., | Title: The Crimson Moviegoer | 10/25/1937 | See Source »

What right does the fact that a man fought during the World War give him to break all the laws of decency, transgress on the equally important rights of other citizens, and act like a drunken hoodlum generally? And why do we allow this to happen each year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Oct. 25, 1937 | 10/25/1937 | See Source »

...plays for a team, annually one of the most deceptive in the country, and has a bag of tricks equaled by few, if any, teams in the East. But it was not only the small number of Big Green plays that has made scouting then so difficult, but the fact that not one play demonstrated has had the least semblance of being deceptive or unusually "tricky...

Author: By The Dartmouth, Football Editor, and Mel Wax, S | Title: High Scoring Indian Team, Reputedly Strong on Plunges, May Use Trickery | 10/23/1937 | See Source »

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