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Word: hadn (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...describing F. D. R.'s greeting of "Hello, Grouch," to Secretary Ickes, TIME said ". . . Secretary of Interior Ickes, who had eaten some crab meat for lunch and was wishing he hadn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Feb. 5, 1940 | 2/5/1940 | See Source »

...sense that they were good men and will be hard to replace, but it was good in a way because all the men came from well-organized and (mostly) Dixieland bands--which meant so far, Jack hadn't been able to develop any distinctive style...

Author: By Michael Levin, | Title: SWING | 1/19/1940 | See Source »

Pausing outside the chamber of the House of Representatives, Franklin Roosevelt shouted laughingly to Secretary of Interior Ickes, who had eaten some crab meat for lunch and was wishing he hadn't, "Hello, Grouch." Then the President, in a grey cutaway, walked with smiling dignity into a joint session of Congress to deliver his eighth annual message on the State of the Nation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Our Children | 1/15/1940 | See Source »

...story told by a 14-year-old girl: "I found my aunt and the little children crying . . . because they were hungry. They hadn't had any food that day and nothing but cornmeal the day before. My little cousin had found some onions and was eating those with mustard...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: OHIO: Enough to Eat | 1/8/1940 | See Source »

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