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Word: keeps (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...hell am I to say all this? Well, I'll tell you. I'm an American of German origin. Like Hitler I'm a poet, and no editor pays any attention to my manuscripts. But I'm German enough to keep at it until I've had my say and then I'll quit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Oct. 23, 1939 | 10/23/1939 | See Source »

Withdrawing the word "racket" on a point of order, Mr. Woodrum said that the Fish organization-the National Committee to Keep America Out of Foreign Wars-with headquarters in Fish's office, using Government facilities and employes, had been sending out appeals for campaign funds on official stationery. The funds were to offset what the Fish committee called "the New Deal war-hysteria campaign" and "to expose these efforts to involve...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Idle Hands | 10/23/1939 | See Source »

...peaceful folk all over the U. S. last week went a series of curdling injunctions to keep America out of World War II. Black type, slick paper, photographs of horribly wounded and starved victims of war were the propaganda materials of the American Federation of Peace. Sample atrocities...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WAR & PEACE: Slick Stuff | 10/23/1939 | See Source »

...rule the people have learned not to ask or reason why, but the six-and-a-half-hour official radio shutdown-presumably for repairs-was seized upon by Germany's Freedom Station, a portable radio transmitter run by daring anti-Nazis who at the risk of their lives keep one jump ahead of the Gestapo or secret police. With supreme audacity the Freedom Station opened up in the early morning, broadcast as a straight news bulletin that the Allies had just agreed to an 18-day armistice, that the "Chamberlain-Churchill Cabinet" had resigned, that King George...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: Special Jokes Dept. | 10/23/1939 | See Source »

Witless, but spreading like wildfire, is a Palladium war tune, Run Rabbit Run.* Celebrities in the audience, such as Beatrice Lillie or Ivor Novello, have been yanked up on the stage to bray it out. Novello, composer of World War I's Keep the Home Fires Burning, has written a new marching song, We'll Remember the Meadows, which will be introduced at the opening of his new show next week...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: The Show Must Go On | 10/23/1939 | See Source »

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