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Word: isn (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...week on promotion, recently had to be argued out of cutting the paper's price to 2? (all Philadelphia papers went from 2? to 3? last year). When some underling suggests that one of his ideas will be expensive he generally snaps: "It's my money, isn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Philadelphia Story | 6/26/1939 | See Source »

...ISN'T SHE CUTE?' SAYS...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: O.K., England | 6/19/1939 | See Source »

Sidewalk spectators stared. Finally one of them halted Joachie Jr. He exclaimed: "Son, this isn't China. They can't do that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Father and Son | 6/12/1939 | See Source »

...children in a floodlit natural amphitheatre cheered and sang. The King and Queen stepped into the crowd to be hugged and kissed (he had been backslapped at Ottawa), as well as cheered. Tears were in the Queen's eyes as she returned to the train, murmuring, "Isn't it wonderful...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Isn't It Wonderful? | 6/5/1939 | See Source »

Brash, noisy Leon & Eddie's has not varied in years, still offers cartwheel and carte blanche entertainment. Its ferocious Apache dance is the next thing to murder, but the crowd really goes to hear Proprietor Eddie Davis, whose smutty jokes and songs like Myrtle Isn't Fertile Any More are subtle as a burglar alarm and rouse the house just as effectively, and who for ten years has had his trained-seal patrons dutifully bellow out the choruses of She Came Rollin' Down the Mountain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: Revelry by Night | 6/5/1939 | See Source »

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