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Word: kents (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...clock one evening this week the Duchess of Kent, chatting merrily with Lord and Lady Portarlington, got in her car outside her house in London's Belgrave Square and drove off with her guests to the cinema to see Wuthering Heights. Not until she returned hours later did the Duchess learn that she had narrowly missed being shot by an assassin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Shot | 6/12/1939 | See Source »

First of all, none of the words used in the song . . . were intended to have any particular meaning. Last October, Jerry Brandow and Larry Kent, two comedian-dancers, played a "lick" for me to which the words "Hold-tight, hold-tight, hold-tight, hold-tight -want some seafood mama ! Shrimpers and rice, they're very nice" went. The two boys explained that they had heard the words and music either in a New York or Philadelphia night club where a colored band was playing. . . . We made a recording of the words and music to that point in a Broadway...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, May 15, 1939 | 5/15/1939 | See Source »

Acting as a Regency for the King in his absence will be a Council of State composed of those adults next in line of succession to the Throne. Under the Regency Act of 1937 these would be the Dukes of Kent and Gloucester, the King's brothers; Princess Mary, the Princess Royal, sister of the King; and Princess Arthur of Connaught, granddaughter of Edward VII, cousin of George VI. Queen Elizabeth will also nominally be a member of the Council according to the Regency Act, even though, as in this case, she is absent from Great Britain with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Royal Voyage | 5/8/1939 | See Source »

...Most famed others: the white-robed Order of the Holy Cross, whose Father Frederick H. Sill founded and heads Kent School; the grey-robed Order of St. Francis...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Monks of St. Mary | 5/1/1939 | See Source »

Visitors to San Francisco's Golden Gate Fair last week: Artist Rockwell Kent, Author Damon Runyon, Ruth Bryan Owen Rohde. Said she: "I'm not sure I want to look at the World of Tomorrow, considering some phases of the world of today." Pre-visitor to the New York World's Fair: Cinemactor George Arliss...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, May 1, 1939 | 5/1/1939 | See Source »

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