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Word: hell (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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After the repast the little gathering went upstairs. They must show the Vagabond a dormitory room. On the way one of the number knocked at a door. "Get the hell out, I'm studying," was the shocking answer. A think grimace was pasted on the lips of the knocker. They would have revenge. Two Victrolas were commandeered and set to playing on the door stoop--"Something To Remember Me By." Then a few fire crackers were shot off to give the thing a tinge of reality. The scoundrels slunk off to their rooms to study...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Student Vagabond | 5/26/1931 | See Source »

...necessarily wicked, is often entertaining, sometimes even slightly edifying. Ford Madox Ford's books are gossipy, mostly entertaining but occasionally like the vaporings of the club bore. He is a great one . . . for three dots. Notterdam and Kratch had been through thick & thin, up a deal and down hell together. They were now twin tycoons lording it in Manhattan. Kratch had many an iron in the fire; Notterdam's only one was the rod with which he ruled the great publishing house of Post, Gellatly & Jeaffreson. Cronies but always cantankerous, Notterdam and Kratch came to grips, almost...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Gossip | 5/25/1931 | See Source »

While the Chatterton-Lukas combination is riding on busses and getting wet, his lordship decides to elope with the sister-in-law, and we see him going hell-for-leather through the night. We then hear a crash, and back through the drifting fog comes the distraught figure of the sister-in-law. Next day in the London domicile there is the Chatterton scene, in which her ladyship sacrifices her reputation to save her brother from mortification and despair. We are left with a fleeting glimpse of Mr. Lukas at the wheel of a powerful...

Author: By J. A. B., | Title: The Crimson Playgoer | 5/20/1931 | See Source »

...impoverished German parents, Theodore was one of 13 children. Late Songwriter Paul "On the Banks of the Wabash," "My Gal Sal" was the only one beside his younger brother to become famed. Franker than the average, Autobiographer Theodore tells of the religious mania of his father, the hell raising of his brothers, the amorous experiments of his sisters (whom he protects by pseudonyms). Himself very shy, young Theodore trembled when he first saw a girl in tights, but seems to have been in love with love as soon and as much as possible...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Adolescent Pachyderm* | 5/18/1931 | See Source »

Sibelius' Swan of Tuonela by Conductor Leopold Stokowski and Philadelphia Orchestra (Victor, $2)?A glowing account of a hero's approach to the Finnish hell...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: May Records | 5/18/1931 | See Source »

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