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Word: ink (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Cornell remains the star type. She is not unversatile, and she is richly gifted: her plastic face, moving voice, vivid gestures, her taste for grandiose and romantic roles, proclaim the "star" personality. When that personality cannot be directly, physically, communicated, as in her life story, it dries up like ink on a blotter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: Great Katharine | 4/3/1939 | See Source »

...John Harvard's back was when Saradjeff, as a final gesture of despair, threw an epileptic fit in the Lowell House Common Room. He was sent down to Stillman where he decided that Professor Coolidge and his flock had poisoned him. As an antidote, he drank a bottle of ink. At this point, Lowell House threw in the rag and persuaded Saradjeff to return to his native land...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Vagabond | 3/8/1939 | See Source »

...much peanut butter Wednesday and was out of school Thursday with a stomach ache. . . . Murilyn Estes uses her white shoes for an autograph al bum and likes to have all her friends sign their names along with little rhymes of poetry, such as : 'I dip my pen in ink and hope your feet don't stink.' " Editor Lath ers gets into plenty of legal fights, but as a onetime law student usually wins his own case. His paper has one catchall headline in which the first few words change each week, such as "WOOLEN INNER SHIRTS...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Grass Roots Press | 2/20/1939 | See Source »

Exempt from duty: . . . Original paintings in oil, mineral, water, or other colors, pastels, original drawings and sketches in pen, ink, pencil or water colors...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Utrillo's Duty | 2/20/1939 | See Source »

WANTED: Position as cartoonist with newspaper or magazine art department. I am American born, a high school graduate with character, good sense of humor, and ambition to earn and hold a cartoonist's job. Have studied subject five years, done mimeograph and pen-and-ink work, sold a few cartoons. Further samples of work and complete personal history, with references, upon request...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jan. 23, 1939 | 1/23/1939 | See Source »

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