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Word: headedness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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There was a tense moment, he reported, before noon at the Hôtel des Invalides, before the Governor surrendered to 20,000 citizens headed by the French Guard. The Governor de Launay, displayed the white flag and opened the gates, but drew up the drawbridge after soldiers and citizens...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: A Dreadful Havock | 7/24/1939 | See Source »

At 7:30 one morning last week two squadrons of heavy Blenheim and Wellington bombers soared out of Midland mists and headed for France. Fully loaded, cruising at 6,000 feet under sealed orders, they crossed the Channel to Le Havre, turned due south. At nine o'clock eight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: The Bill | 7/24/1939 | See Source »

One report had it that an old lung ailment had returned and that inactivity had been prescribed for her. Another report (published in Paris by the weekly Aux Ecoutes) had it that the ambitious Edda had recently overreached herself in a quarrel with Crown Prince Umberto and his wife, the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Lady of the Axis | 7/24/1939 | See Source »

In the church door, a red biretta on his close-cropped head, an old black overcoat covering his scarlet-piped soutane, appeared hollow-eyed Theodor Cardinal Innitzer, Archbishop of Vienna. As he raised his arms in bewildered alarm, the mob let go a volley of eggs and potatoes. A schoolteacher...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Classic Tragedy | 7/17/1939 | See Source »

It was eleven years ago that Amarillo's big, bald, newspaper-publishing Gene Howe called Charles Augustus Lindbergh "swell-headed," "simple-minded," "lucky"; nine years ago when he made more front-page headlines by loudly proclaiming that Singer Mary Garden only had a "fair voice" and was "old, very...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Panhandle's Friend | 7/17/1939 | See Source »

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