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Word: fronted (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...inaugural ball in magnificent Zembo Mosque thronged Pennsylvania's very fattest cats: ex-Senator Joseph L. Grundy, chairman of the Pennsylvania Manufacturers Association ; Oilman Joseph N. Pew Jr.; Publisher Moses Annenberg (who drank Coca-Colas with a pretty legislative secretary); John M. Flynn, who used to front for Joe Grundy at the State House. A figure new and interesting to Pennsylvanians was Colonel Carl L. Estes, a Texas publisher who was reportedly in the Pew family oil business (Sun Oil Co.), and who by Governor James's first executive order became an Admiral of the Pennsylvania Navy. Admiral...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PENNSYLVANIA: Republicans' Return | 1/30/1939 | See Source »

...said the Congress, the whole thing was a mistake. Chile's party was as unlike Germany's as a sickle is unlike a swastika. The world must remember that 15,000 Nacistas helped elect Chile's Popular Front President Pedro Aguirre Cerda last October. Henceforth the party name was to be Popular Socialist Vanguard. It would advocate: 1) nationalization of copper, nitrate, iron industries, electricity, railroads (all but the last largely U. S.-owned); 2) creation of a State-owned bank and merchant marine; 3) housing for Chile's underpaid workers. Having thus clarified a world...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHILE: Mistaken Identity | 1/30/1939 | See Source »

Inside the theatre, lobby and aisles are jammed. Chinchilla arrives to snub ermine and mink. Amid the babel of voices can be heard the high British squeak, languid Southern drawl. Continental roll of rs, marcelled New Yorkese. Down in front, as she has been at nearly every Broadway first night for over 20 years, sits elderly, fragile Mrs. Rita Katzenberg...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: First-Night Fever | 1/30/1939 | See Source »

Whether or not he has granted the petition given to him Wednesday that the driveway in front of Eliot and Kirkland Houses be left open until 11 o'clock will be announced today by Aldrich Durant, Business Manager...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Await Durant's Verdict on Closing Hours of Eliot-Kirkland Driveway | 1/27/1939 | See Source »

...Crimson cagers packed away their uniforms after the Dartmouth game until the end of the examination period, but all was not quiet along the E. I. L. basketball front over the last weekend...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Tiger Pucksters and Indian Hoopmen Score Important Wins Over Weekend | 1/23/1939 | See Source »

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