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Word: fleetly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...British themselves would not normally become excited over the presence of German volunteers in the Spanish ranks. What is happening is the same old affair. Because the Paris People's Front newspapers see fit to become excited and the French Foreign Office is issuing alarming statements, the Fleet Street editorial desks must become excited...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SPAIN: Uneasy Christmas | 1/4/1937 | See Source »

...find a project for which WPA funds could be obtained in 1937. After gravely considering their problem they announced that they had agreed on this boondoggle: a bombproof, gas-proof subterranean chamber that will serve as a haven for the entire population if and when an enemy air fleet comes overhead intent on wiping Beaufort...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RELIEF: Beaujort Boondoggle | 12/21/1936 | See Source »

Afterward, Lawyer Goddard & Dr. Kirkwood made no desperate air dash back to London but comfortably entrained at Marseilles, and Mr. Goddard. when he reached London, went directly to Mr. Baldwin at No. 10 Downing Street. Assuming, and everyone in Fleet Street did assume, that Dr. Kirkwood's report established the non-pregnancy of Mrs. Simpson, many benefits might flow from this. Among others, Lawyer Goddard, according to the British divorce law, could ask the Court to make Mrs. Simpson's decree nisi absolute not in the usual six months (on April 27), but in three months...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Duchess of Windsor | 12/21/1936 | See Source »

Warner Brothers and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer has contributed a number of the prints now on display in the Theatre Room. Scenes shown vary from the crude efforts of the Mary Pickford-Charlie Chaplin era to extravaganzas like "Midsummer Night's Dream" and "Here Comes the Fleet...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Adolph Zukor Presents Collection of 500 Varied Movie Prints to Widener | 12/15/1936 | See Source »

Tracing letters sent to Ginger Rogers demanding $5,000 on threat of kidnapping or death. Department of Justice agents trapped Sailor James F. Hall of the Navy aircraft carrier Lexington who explained that he had fallen in love with Cinemactress Rogers after seeing her dance in Follow the Fleet. Campaigning for birth control, Mrs. Thomas Norval Hepburn, mother of Cinemactress Katharine Hepburn, two sons and two other daughters, declared in New Haven, Conn.'s First Methodist Church: "If you aren't frank about sex, your children will never confide in you again. When I explained scientifically and specifically...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Dec. 14, 1936 | 12/14/1936 | See Source »

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