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Word: handly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...when Casey played his first game as a Pirate in the Brooklyn ball park, the Brooklyn crowd gave him a big hand. Casey bowed, lifted his cap. Out flew a bewildered sparrow...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Living Legend | 11/8/1937 | See Source »

...retirement will come that of U. S. Steel's President William A. Irvin, now a year from the retirement age of 65. To succeed him, Big Steel's directors last week picked 47-year-old Benjamin F. Fairless, who began as a schoolmaster, tried his hand at railroad engineering, joined Central Steel Co. in 1913, eventually became vice president. Through various mergers, Ben Fairless rose to be executive vice president of Republic Steel, left that post to become president of Myron Taylor's Amalgamated Carnegie-Illinois Steel Corp. in 1935. Following him in this berth will...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Big Steel, Little Stet | 11/8/1937 | See Source »

...Titonka, Iowa, Mrs. Will Schutjer turned Daughter Patty, 4, over her knee. As her mother's hand fell, Patty held a can opener behind her. Mrs. Schutjer's hand was punctured...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Nov. 8, 1937 | 11/8/1937 | See Source »

...other hand is Ed Wynn. He complains bitterly about marriage. "You know," he howls, "once a girl proposed to me in a garage, and I couldn't back...

Author: By Charles N. Pollak ii, | Title: Ed Wynn Advocates Clean Humor and "Philosophy of a Fool" . . . Giggles Way to Peace in "Hooray for What?" | 11/8/1937 | See Source »

...today, Ed Wynn writes a lot of his own lines. As a "student and analyzer" of humor he has developed his giggle, his high voice, his lisp. The show puts Ed's type of humor in effective contrast with the serious undercurrent of anti-war sentiment. On the one hand, in one act, a score of dazzling chorines dance gracefully with their backs always to the audience. They wear sweeping, transparent costumes. The music plays on, the dance becomes more graceful, the rhythm and movement speed up; finally the climax of the dance is reached and suddenly all the girls...

Author: By Charles N. Pollak ii, | Title: Ed Wynn Advocates Clean Humor and "Philosophy of a Fool" . . . Giggles Way to Peace in "Hooray for What?" | 11/8/1937 | See Source »

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