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Word: jigged (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...remaining shillings on a junket to Richmond Park, to have a nap on the grass. In the ladies' room she has luck enough to steal a purse, and when she gets home she finds a farewell present from George under her door. But she knows the jig is almost up. Authoress Jameson puts her to bed, watches her doze off. "The pulse in her arm lying on the dirty sheet is one of the stages of a mystery. Look once more and you can see how beautiful she is. Poor woman, let her sleep...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Woman Of It | 1/2/1933 | See Source »

...leap, slide, fall forward and backward, accompanied only by a cymbal and the swish of their bodies against a slick blue floor; the same girls in an or- giastic interpretation of an oldtime Shaker meeting; a marionet show in which Alfred Emanuel Smith, Herbert Hoover and John Davison Rockefeller jig together with a chorus of little oil cans. Tunes: "Wouldja for a Big Red Apple?", "You're Not Pretty But You're Mine," "Satan's Little Lamb." When Ladies Meet (by Rachel Croth- ers; John Golden, producer). Everything Mary Howard (Frieda Inescort) did bore the hallmark...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Oct. 17, 1932 | 10/17/1932 | See Source »

...altering the Constitution by Congress and the States? Should some tricky system of conventions, such as Secretary Hyde's "Missouri Compromise," be advocated? Or should a specific reform permitting State option be put forward? Out of such knotty lumber the G. O. P. plank had to be jig-sawed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: REPUBLICANS: Bread, Not Beer | 6/13/1932 | See Source »

...program is as follows: Water Music Handel Concerto in B Minor for four violins Vivaldo Violin solos S. T. Romasskieicz '33 George Mateyo '34 David Band '34 E. M. Reover, Jr. 3G. Concerto in D. Minor for Violoncello J. Bach St. Paul's Suite for string orchestra Holst Jig Oelintao - Intermezzo -- Finale (The Dungeon...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PIERIAN SODALITY WILL GIVE CONCERT TONIGHT | 3/8/1932 | See Source »

Major Bray, popular Asuncion Garrison Commander, promised that the Army and Navy (five river gunboats) would preserve peace without butchery-at least without butchering students of good family. Vice President Emiliano Gonzalez Navero automatically became Provisional President, promised that Congress would investigate the ousted President's acts.* In jig time the No. 7 Revolution to force out a Constitutional President in South America since Bolivia made No. 1, subsided for the week. Observers scanned the troubled continent, saw only three republics where revolt has not successfully raised its head: two-faced Colombia†; cattle-rich little Uruguay; oily Venezuela...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SOUTH AMERICA: Seven Revolutions | 11/9/1931 | See Source »

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