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Word: incidental (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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The Eagle Pencil Company of New York did not know that El Salvador was omitted from a world map which it was including in children's pencil boxes until the United Press called its attention to the protest made by the National Tourist Board of El Salvador to the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: EL SALVADOR: Off the Map | 4/18/1938 | See Source »

Storm in a Teacup (Alexander Korda) is the tidiest, canniest, best-played bit of heather comedy to come from across the sea since René Clair made The Ghost Goes West. Provost Gow of Baikie (Cecil Parker), treading pompously toward Parliament, stumbled over Mrs. Honoria Hegarty's (Sara Allgood...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Buy British | 4/11/1938 | See Source »

In legal language, what this amounted to was de facto recognition of Hitler's coup, which was far from equivalent to de jure approval. With his official announcement, Mr. Hull gave out a curt statement: "The extent to which the Austrian incident . . . is calculated to endanger the maintenance of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CABINET: Hull's Fire | 3/28/1938 | See Source »

Japan's War Minister General Gen Sugiyama told a committee of the Tokyo Diet fortnight ago that even the versatile Japanese could not fight 450,000,000 Chinese and play games simultaneously; that if the "China incident" continues, it might be best to cancel the 1940 Olympics. Next day...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Nothing in China | 3/28/1938 | See Source »

Last week Fashion Critic Hawes was still pouting at her publishers because they refused to illustrate her book with drawings she had had made by one of her favorite artists, the New Yorker's Helen Elna Hokinson. She vowed she was going to write another book, one that no...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Dressing Down | 3/28/1938 | See Source »

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