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Word: guess (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...claim this result as a personal triumph for Governor Roosevelt over Mr. Smith. "Oh, get out!" joshed the Governor at this suggestion. Small though the refores tation issue was, however, it did serve to remind people that Mr. Smith had yet to endorse the Roosevelt candidacy. The best guess was that Mr. Smith was dissatisfied with Governor Roosevelt's Prohibition stand, even suspected the latter of playing both ends against the middle to win Wet and Dry favor. Mr. Smith has vowed that the next Democratic nominee must be as Wet as he is. While Governor Roosevelt was last week...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CAMPAIGN: Straightaway | 11/16/1931 | See Source »

...That is, after you have read her own story of her stormy life. To look at her as she appears now, with that hard, defiant old face, that grim and challenging eye, it is easy to see how hateful, what a nuisance society found her; you would never guess how many lovers she has had, how many friends...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Old Red | 11/9/1931 | See Source »

...sold them rather than submit to the testing. He was arrested. On other farms, machine guns were set up while the veterinarians did their work. The revolt collapsed into a campaign of "passive resistance." Said Farmer Lenker as he marched his live body off under guard: "Well, Maw, I guess we've resisted all we can without bloodshed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HUSBANDRY: At Lenker's Place | 10/5/1931 | See Source »

Editor Walker is married, has one daughter, is expecting another child. First to break the news publicly was, of course, gabby Colyumist Walter Winchell of the Mirror. Editor Walker read the squib, remarked: "Well, I guess this is all right? as long as I get a by-line...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: City Editor | 9/7/1931 | See Source »

Business men were puzzled as to why Mr. Hearst should require another financial structure of such size. First guess was that it might have been conceived to create a market for the stock of Hearst Consolidated Publications Inc., the $100,000,000 company which Mr. Hearst formed last year to take over eleven of his most profitable publishing enterprises. Others, pondering the scope of Mr. Hearst's interests, believed he was planning to go into the security business...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Without Benefit of Bankers | 9/7/1931 | See Source »

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