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Word: hearses (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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In Manhattan's Carnegie Hall one night last week an angular young woman in black with an enormous white shawl collar gripped a microphone, spoke with warm, smiling emphasis to an assemblage of some 400 U. S. artists and six times as many followers of the arts. Of all...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Congress | 12/27/1937 | See Source »

The creatures of the wood rush to the dwarfs. After an awful chase through gloomy mountain chasms the dwarfs force the Queen to the edge of a precipice and a thunderbolt tumbles her over. Snow White seems dead, but the dwarfs cannot bear to part from her. They let her...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Mouse & Man | 12/27/1937 | See Source »

Disney, Inc. "It was always my ambition to own a swell camera," says Walt Disney, "and now, godammit, I got one. I get a kick just watching the boys operate it, and remembering how I used to have to make 'em out of baling wire." The baling wire period...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Mouse & Man | 12/27/1937 | See Source »

All day I hear the noise of waters Making moan. Sad as the seabird is, when going Forth alone He hears the winds cry to the waters' Monotone.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Personal Pangs | 10/4/1937 | See Source »

¶ To the lexicon of permissible slang Mrs. Post, who was once heard to describe a table layout as "lousy," adds such expressions as "O.K.." "swell," "divine," "and how!" "so what?" "you betcha." But she never hears "colyum," "ottawobile," "eggsit," "tomayto," "cult-your" (which she pronounces "cultcha")* in good society...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Autocrat of Etiquette | 9/20/1937 | See Source »

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