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Word: fundaments (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...eight-year man in the House, with more of Washington's shoe-polish than of Texas' alkali on his boots. Martin Dies had, with all his unfairness as a prosecutor and ineptitude as an investigator, become the Opposition's favorite splinter in the Administration's fundament. His continuance as an inquisitor specifically demonstrated other things...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: National Figure | 2/13/1939 | See Source »

...taking off the feathers because I am going to eat this chicken when I get home. I was once a barber and an expert hairdresser and I know all about things like this. It is not hurting the little chicken." Looking skeptically at the little chicken's nude fundament, Mr. Nelson was not so sure. He began to fight with Mr. Berger. At 42nd St. they were pried apart, taken to a nearby station house. Mr. Nelson promptly charged Mr. Berger with cruelty to animals. A policeman took the little chicken into the next room, knocked...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Aug. 30, 1937 | 8/30/1937 | See Source »

...rise in Broadway's 1936-37 musicomedy firmament was judged by most observers to be of the second magnitude. In terms of a college musical show, the libretto wrestles with the story of a nation-wide search for a girl with a waffle-iron burn on her fundament. She has been lost since 1918, approximately the year in which Messrs. Lindsay's & Grouse's puns, concerning souls and heels and counterfeiters who forge ahead, lost their bloom. Also second-best in the opinion of most listeners is the score Cole Porter has composed for his 12th musical...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Play in Manhattan: Nov. 9, 1936 | 11/9/1936 | See Source »

...have felt free to bring in any amount of extraneous horseplay that might add freshness and fun to their antic. Thus, as plain Kate, bonny Kate and sometimes Kate the curst, Miss Fontanne stalks about in a torn white gown with hair in her eyes, kicks people in the fundament, hurls bedding out a second-story window, rides a fake horse makes one exit seated backward on a donkey. Whereas most actresses play the Paduan minx as though she were a frustrated psychopath, Miss Fontanne plays her as though she were a young tilly simply spoiling for a good licking...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: Plain Kate, Bonny Kate | 10/14/1935 | See Source »

When the great Duke of Wellington, in the course of shooting grouse in Scotland, shot the fundament of a female Scottish peasant full of birdshot, His Grace testily made no apology, and a member of his entourage observed: "The good woman should have been honored by any contact with the Victor of Waterloo...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Birdshot Into Gillie | 9/2/1935 | See Source »

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