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Word: fraid (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Penrod (Billy Mauch) is chief of a private G-man organization, Sam (Harry Watson) his trusty right-hand man. At first Penrod's life is complicated only by the trouble he is always getting into by his scraps with mean, 'fraid-cat Rodney Bitts (Jackie Morrow), the son of his dad's boss. Sent upstairs supperless, Penrod gets out of a whipping by swearing in his dad as a junior G-man. When a gang of crooks holds up the town bank and shoots a colored woman, mother of Penrod's friend and fellow...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Mar. 8, 1937 | 3/8/1937 | See Source »

...CRIMSON, huh? 'Fraid you won't find much copy around here." The student returned to his book, kicking the bedclothes into a more comfortable position, and relaxing indifferently upon the white-enamelled bed in a ward of Stillman Infirmary. After a while he looked back uncertainly at the reporter...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Stillman Infirmary a Haven For Exhausted Students Who Need Rest--Few Exceptions Break Up Peacefulness, Study | 3/30/1933 | See Source »

...novels, plays and poems, denounced romance as frivolous and out of keeping with the Five-Year Plan. During the summer such restrictions were relaxed but many a Red editor still shies at printing romance. Recently the famed Crocodile, satiric Soviet monthly, set out to poke fun at editorial 'fraid-cats, did it with a neat, significant short story which reached the U. S. last week...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Crocodile Romance | 1/16/1933 | See Source »

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