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Word: garb (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...breast-expansion or weeping on an embroidered chaise longue. The picture's smart decor changes abruptly and briefly when, to prove that hard-working Lawyer Boles knows how to relax, an Easter scene at an orphan asylum is injected, wherein Boles, dressed in a magician's garb complete with plug hat, wig, barbershop mustache and false nose (see cut), does tricks for the inmates. Silliest sequence: Miss Muir being sent to jail for contempt when, quizzed by Boles in a divorce action for which he is the plaintiff's attorney, she refuses to divulge to whom Boles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures: Jul. 15, 1935 | 7/15/1935 | See Source »

...have "wrung Senator Connally's neck" for talking that way. Rush Holt's white suit got all wrinkled during the first day's orations. When he and his family returned next day, he had on his second best, a brown coat and grey trousers. In that garb he stood by until the Senate finally decided to complete its membership by taking...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Full Senate | 7/1/1935 | See Source »

Jean MacLane, who won the $1,000 Altman prize for the best genre painting with her canvas Tennis Days. In it were to be seen two athletic-looking girls wearing bandannas and two tanned, crop-headed boys in tennis garb...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Radio Plugs | 3/18/1935 | See Source »

...glad to see you all ! Now I is gwine tell you how this all is" they were abysmally mistaken. The sharp-featured, politically cunning ruler of between five and ten million savage and uncounted blacks is emphatically the suave cream in Africa's strong coffee. If the accustomed garb of Power of Trinity is particolored, gorgeous and outlandish, if His Majesty finds a real lion's mane appropriate headgear in his role of Conquering Lion of Judah, the reason is that he profoundly understands his people. But, in their private apartments, the Empress Menen takes dictation and pounds...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: Negroes v. Blackshirts | 2/25/1935 | See Source »

...officials at first, then "They were beheaded." Accustomed to such bare-faced lies, the newshawks patiently pecked for details, finally satisfied themselves that an axing had occurred. With the backs of their heads shaved bald, the Baroness von Berg and Frau von Natzmer were led in coarse, nondescript prison garb to the blood-caked block from which so many heads now roll in the sawdust. The headsman, incongruous in his yellowish celluloid shirtfront, his old silk hat and his red-spotted tailcoat, raised the gleaming ax. Twice it swished down to sever a lovely neck and send the blood...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: Baroness Beheaded | 2/25/1935 | See Source »

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