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Word: himly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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We evolved a plan of attack which was moderately successful. We would row out into the ocean about 300 yards, then bore a hole six inches in diameter in the bottom of the boat, preferably near the bow. We would then rub around the edge of the hole a mixture...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jul. 24, 1939 | 7/24/1939 | See Source »

That hatred of Jews is fundamentally hatred of monotheism is not Dr. Freud's discovery, but hats off to him for calling a spade a spade. Blood, might, survival of the fittest constitute the diet of modern paganism. Pagans living on a monotheistic diet are subject to periodical violent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jul. 24, 1939 | 7/24/1939 | See Source »

The frontier was far more tolerant of Bret Harte, according to Author Walker's records, than Harte ever admitted. A slender, curly-haired, sickly New York boy, who had read Shakespeare at six, Bret (whose friends sometimes called him Fanny) was a self-conscious literary man, who prospected in...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Golden Era | 7/17/1939 | See Source »

When Ambrose Bierce landed in San Francisco in 1866, a tall, blue-eyed ex-Civil War officer, he showed few signs of the savage misanthropy which marked his later work. According to Author Walker's researches, Bitter Bierce's misanthropy began two years after his arrival, when he...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Golden Era | 7/17/1939 | See Source »

The story of a neglected wife, Skylark tells how Lydia Kenyon, wife of a $50,000-a-year Manhattan adman, discovered her husband was sleeping with his business, broke up that romance by curing him of the desire to be a big shot. The novel's dialogue ("She'...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Play in Boards | 7/17/1939 | See Source »

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