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Word: funs (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Everything seemed to depend on the New Deal's desires in the matter. It has been no fun to have Franklin Roosevelt's most savage critic, the Chicago Tribune, dominating the New Deal's Chicago machine. Mayor Kelly, despite several visits from stodgy "draft-Kelly" committees, could doubtless be shelved by a nice Federal appointment. So, perhaps, could ambitious Tom Courtney, who might even be set up to succeed Governor Horner. Having him for Mayor of Chicago would be no fun for the New Deal either since he is the personal candidate of Colonel Frank Knox...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Mr. Ickes' Exit? | 12/12/1938 | See Source »

...great part of skiing is that even the first time you go out on skis you have fun," asserted William B. Binton '41 yesterday. "Anyone no matter what his age or proficiency can enjoy skiing...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "Skiing Great Sport Because Anyone Can Enjoy It," Says Captain of Team | 12/9/1938 | See Source »

...Taylor's) on a complete change of windows, usually stay up all one night at least with a squad of carpenters, painters, dressers, electricians. Every window display is tied up with merchandising, but this tie-up in the last few years has changed. Display directors owe half their fun to a Depression-born business axiom: "Sell the store as well as the merchandise...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Avenue Art | 12/5/1938 | See Source »

...about twin sets of masters and slaves, one set married, the other not, one set from Ephesus, the other from Syracuse, who get hold of the wrong latchkeys, land in the wrong boudoirs, mix everybody up, finally mix up themselves. But the plot is daffy enough to start the fun rolling. Once started, nothing can stop...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Musical in Manhattan: Dec. 5, 1938 | 12/5/1938 | See Source »

Vexed by sly digs at Nazi measures made by the more daring cafe comedians of Berlin, Propaganda Minister Paul Joseph Goebbels cried with righteous indignation: "Why don't they make fun of the Jews...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Dec. 5, 1938 | 12/5/1938 | See Source »

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