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Word: glides (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...bouquet of roses presented to her at the banquet, a menu signed by Jim Farley, a waltz with an unknown postmaster. "Our badges were our introduction," she explained. "I love to dance-the waltz glide, not this hopping around." Then back she went to her post office on the Eastern Shore, for bi-monthly stocktaking...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WOMEN: Honored Guest | 10/23/1939 | See Source »

...astral gleam in his eye, took off for what he said (in a letter to the press) would be Mars, 51,813,800 miles away.* Near Philadelphia he alighted briefly to take on 55 gallons (which, he later explained, was to carry him beyond gravitational pull, whence he could glide the rest of the way). He took off again, headed north over a fog-blanketed Atlantic. By the time Owner Walz had raised the alarm for his $2,600, uninsured monoplane, Cheston Lee Eshleman was skittering hither & yon, munching chocolate, trying to find a hole...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: Trip to Mars | 6/19/1939 | See Source »

...night looking for trouble ! As a matter of fact, the neighborhood you have libeled is like any other downtown dis trict in a large city- it has plenty of bar rooms, gambling houses and houses of assigna tion. But it also includes a dozen quite respectable hotels, the Glide Memorial Church (Southern Methodist), the B'nai Brith Hall, the very newest and swankiest dance-spot in the city (featuring people like Gene Krupa and Buddy Rogers), the headquarters of a large proportion of the city's labor unions, both...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Mar. 13, 1939 | 3/13/1939 | See Source »

...yacht Potomac, and were each instructed to squire a girl who had never attended a White House dance-the guests were mostly youngsters. White wine punch was the official refreshment.* The orchestra was from New York, conducted by Irving ("Yes, We Have No Bananas") Conn. They danced the Eleanor Glide and Virginia Reel as well as the Lambeth Walk. An exciting moment came when Mrs. Roosevelt, leading a reel with her brother, tripped on her train and tumbled over backwards...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WOMEN: At the White House | 1/9/1939 | See Source »

Derby carries the Schick Shaver, the Gillette Dry Shaver, the Sunbeam Shave master, the Remington Rand Close-Shaver, the Packard, and the new Glide Shaver...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: DERBY'S FEATURES ALL MAKES ELECTRIC RAZORS FOR GIFTS | 12/14/1938 | See Source »

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