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Word: huffs (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...John Wingate Weeks; Mr. Hurley's elevation seemed to establish the precedent that War Department assistant secretaries are full secretaries in embryo. So, for five months the President of the U. S. weighed carefully the qualifications of candidates. Last week he sent his choice to the Senate: Frederick Huff Payne, Lieut. Colonel in the Ordnance Reserve Corps, Board Chairman of Greenfield Tap & Die Corp., of Greenfield, Mass...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CABINET: Second to Hurley | 5/5/1930 | See Source »

...picture in the Police Gazette." They meet for the first time in 20 years. It develops that Cecelia ("Sissy") Ramsey (Theresa Maxwell Conover) aspires to a place in Patchogue, L. I., society; that Regina ("Queenie") Chetworth-Lynde (Helen Raymond) has become a Shakespearean; that Rose ("Rosie") La Marr (Grace Huff) is still in burlesque, but as a producer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: May 5, 1930 | 5/5/1930 | See Source »

Next day, twinkling-eyed, conciliatory Lord Parmoor made hasty rounds among at least a hundred members of his House, found the Earl of Beauchamp (Liberal Leader in the Lords) anxious to smooth things over, and the Marquess of Salisbury (Conservative Leader) in a huff, still repeating that "The duties of the Lords are revisory and cannot be abdicated in the face of threats...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: House of Loafers | 2/17/1930 | See Source »

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