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Word: favorities (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...this week it was Moscow's best opinion that slipping in the Dictator's favor is Defense Commissar Kliment ("Klim") Voroshilov. It has been noticed at Stalin's more recent public appearances that Klim pathetically works overtime striving to appear as much as possible near the Dictator and be seen in conversation with him. "Soso" (Joseph) Stalin has been notably inattentive, even at times visibly short with Klim...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: May-to-May | 5/9/1938 | See Source »

...Mercury Theatre noted, there are speeches like Shot-over's: "The Captain is in his bunk, drinking bottled ditchwater; and the crew is gambling in the forecastle. She [the ship] will strike and sink and split. Do you think the laws of God will be suspended in favor of England because you were born...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: Marvelous Boy | 5/9/1938 | See Source »

...Favor Political Questions...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: INTER-HOUSE DEBATERS SEEK HIRED COACHES | 5/7/1938 | See Source »

...type as a hard-working tenement girl, and Spencer Tracy, a human, two-fisted boss of the waterfront, set out to prove the highly dubious proposition that a girl, madly in love with one man, can marry another for money and then proceed to forges the first in favor of the second. One has the impression that the authors changed their minds several times in the course of writing the story; but it does have the great virtue of novelty, and, in addition, provides opportunity for a high type of dramatic acting, and succeeds on this account...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Moviegoer | 5/2/1938 | See Source »

WASHINGTON--Republican forces in the House renewing their offensive against President Roosevelt's $5,000,000,000 anti-depression drive charged today that Communists throughout the country are spreading propaganda in favor of the legislation. The charges, which followed administration accusations that propaganda against the program is being organized on a "chain letter" basis, plunged the House into bitter debate during a session of less than three hours...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Over the Wire | 4/29/1938 | See Source »

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