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Word: hoopes (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...inspirational drive of Bob Dougherty who tallied seven field goals and one foul for a total of 15 points during the game. Little Whitie Mischo, who caused so much trouble in the last encounter with the Quaker team, again was a thorn in the Feslermen's side hitting the hoop with 11 markets...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: New Swim Mark Set Runners, Five Lose | 2/28/1938 | See Source »

Radio City Revels (RKO-Radio) is a fancy patch of cinematic needlework stretched over the hoop-la idea of a songwriter who works only in his sleep. Fanciest flight: frantic Song Thieves Jack Oakie and Milton Berle trying to cure Sleep-writer Bob Burns's insomnia by tossing a lamb back & forth across his bed. shortcutting by having him start counting at 1,000. Current & Choice...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Also Showing | 2/21/1938 | See Source »

...admits that he might be wrong even on this. From a large squad of 55, Skip has picked 18 men who can handle the ball easily and find the hoop with regularity, but whether they top the average is anybody's guess...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Lining Them Up | 12/7/1937 | See Source »

...Their money could apparently buy everything. . . . Their accent was beginning to be an asset, even to the English themselves, in truly 'smart' circles; it was beginning-you listened in that night?-to be heard in the voice of the young tribal God himself. . . . They were cock-a-hoop, and since Edward's accession getting insolent and out-of-hand. There was but one more world to conquer. The first woman to sit in the ancient Commons was a divorced American.* why not then also...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Commentary | 5/3/1937 | See Source »

...well established as a legitimate heir of Joel Chandler Harris. The Three-Headed Angel is a new departure for him, not only because it is not laid in the deep South but because it has only one Negro character. Most readers will consider that his Hoop Pole Ridgers make up for the loss. Author Bradford swears he has made up the names of all his characters. Mersery Pillow's mother called her that after the planet Mercury. Brigadier-General Bushrod Johnson Potter was what Mersery and Lafe called their firstborn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Phinizy County | 4/26/1937 | See Source »

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