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Word: goings (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...which he had arrived. As all London buzzed with the attack on the popular, pretty Duchess, wife of the youngest brother of Britain's King George VI, Scotland Yard announced that its prisoner had just arrived in London from Australia, where the Duke of Kent is to go next fall as Governor General...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Shot | 6/12/1939 | See Source »

...must be overthrown. Author Gunther also picked up a warning that the Japanese are capable of committing hara-kiri on a national as well as individual scale: the more inextricably Japan becomes involved in China the more likely it is that Japan will deliberately attack a stronger enemy and go down blazingly to defeat in a first-class...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ASIA: Almanac de Gunther | 6/12/1939 | See Source »

...Totals. Like the last, the next great European war is not likely to be fought between only two nations. Most of Europe will choose sides and victory may well go to the weakest nation if it is on the stronger side...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: EUROPE: War Machines | 6/12/1939 | See Source »

...vitality that had made her a successful suffragette. She got the last interview with Hunger Striker Terence McSwiney before he struck out in Cork, Ireland. She got the only interview with Empress Zita in Budapest after the second Karlist putsch failed. She borrowed $500 from Sigmund Freud to go to Warsaw and covered the Pilsudski revolution in evening dress. She was almost shot in Bulgaria. In Vienna she established a salon of sorts and entertained politicians, refugees, psychoanalysts, novelists, musicians and spies. In Budapest she married a Hungarian named Josef Bard, who was just as restless...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Cartwheel Girl | 6/12/1939 | See Source »

...three hours in bed. Along about noon she gets up, dresses fast, then dictates her column. She has three secretaries, named Madeleine, Madeline, and Madelon (she distinguishes them by their last names). One is always at the Herald Tribune answering mail and digging up research and one or two go to her apartment to help her while she works. Miss Thompson seldom goes to her office because the telephone never stops ringing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Cartwheel Girl | 6/12/1939 | See Source »

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