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Word: howle (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...kind is expressed by Haven's: "A splendid chap, very high morals, very broad shoulders." And when the parvenu bridegroom leaves them all, sputtering: "You and your whole rotten class! You're on your way out-the lot of you-and good riddance," he is a howl...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Jan. 20, 1941 | 1/20/1941 | See Source »

...include a fairly thorough reading of his passages on Thoroughness and The Fate of Society. Baker's comments could be applied to poetry in general today. Zabel analyses well the imagery in Stevens' poetry, while Finch concludes that Stevens is a real American poet in spite of the general howl that he follows in the steps of the French. Simons is factual with a dull subject

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ON THE SHELF | 12/13/1940 | See Source »

Next morning they discovered the warships were not British but the U. S. destroyers Plunkett, Gilmer and Broome, on neutrality patrol. They indignantly accused the U. S. of "hostile attitude," set up an injured howl that the destroyers had invaded Mexico's territorial waters. The Mexican Foreign Office took the matter in hand...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MEXICO: Test of Solidarity | 12/2/1940 | See Source »

...nothing of rolling on the floor to get them giggling, WBBM technicians begin to record Meet the Missus. Twittering like sparrows, yanking nervously at their girdles, some of Tommie 's girls answer questions about their clothes, husbands, honeymoons, aspirations, frustrations, children, while the rest of them hoot and howl. Perennial query in the Bartlett questionnaire: "If you were to become a motion-picture actress, what actor would you like as your leading man?" Stock answer: Clark Gable...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Meet the Missus | 7/1/1940 | See Source »

...them fume and threaten; the right to insult was given us under the constitution. Let them howl in protest; we know it is all propaganda. Let them attack the freedom of our press; we shall defend it to the last. We shall never forsake our unbiased, unfettered press which alone can keep our heads above the maclstrom of distortion and infamy...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FUROR BOSTONICUS | 6/5/1940 | See Source »

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