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Word: guess (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Some of these girls sure is roses," remarked one of the maids at a Radcliffe dormitory in a recent CRIMSON interview. "Course, you can't expect them all to be good, but then, some of them are pretty poor pickin's. I guess you young folks nowadays call 'emlousy, that's a misuse of the word, but some of them do leave a little ring on the bathtub...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Radcliffe Femme de Chambre Computes No Percentage in Madonnas of Shepard Street--Flays Girls for Naivete | 2/9/1933 | See Source »

...hear all the footsteps pounding around upstairs when that phone rang? It's that way all the time they're just waiting for it. I don't see why you fellows bother to come up here, but one man's meat is another man's poison, so I guess it comes out all right...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Radcliffe Femme de Chambre Computes No Percentage in Madonnas of Shepard Street--Flays Girls for Naivete | 2/9/1933 | See Source »

...shrewd guess on Burns & Allen's radio salary: $2.000 per week. Combined with cinema and vaudeville profits they make some $5,000 per week, live in a swank apartment on Manhattan's Central Park South. Gracie Allen, a normal adult, chafes under a growing reputation for living her comedy character...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Nat & Googie | 1/30/1933 | See Source »

Last week some 10.000 bankers, rail-road officials, textile manufacturers, lawyers, editors, building contractors, food packers and public utilitarians read the foregoing Cabinet guess and found it good. To each it had come in a mimeographed letter from Washington, enclosed in a sealed envelope with a 3? stamp. They all were paying $18 per year to receive this and similar information every week. It was the Kiplinger Washington Letter, smartest and most alert of three similar services conducted at the Capital...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: News Letters | 1/30/1933 | See Source »

...weekly Kiplinger letter, issued by Willard Monroe Kiplinger, is as speculative as the Cabinet guess. More typical are Kiplinger's shrewd and crackling appraisals of current news. These he gives in a blunt, crisp style tuned to his client...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: News Letters | 1/30/1933 | See Source »

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