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Word: kitchener (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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According to officials of a Northern mail-order house-which one the inspectors would not say-Bug Tussle had done them out of $6,000 worth of overalls and kitchen stoves. The citizens had done it, they said, simply by giving themselves as references for each other and nobody ever seemed to have paid for what he ordered. One of them even got his cat an A credit rating. The inspectors are afraid they will have to make some more arrests, but they think it fortunate for their case that they will be able to take the erring citizens...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Bug Tussle | 4/11/1938 | See Source »

...Matthews set about getting something to eat during a lull between raids, continued to observe morale in the restaurant. "I did not find it amusing," he cabled afterward, ''to see a great hulking fellow who was eating with his girl jump up and beat her to the kitchen by three strides as the next raid began...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Barcelona Horrors | 3/28/1938 | See Source »

...general everyone tried to get as far back from the streets as possible, hoping a direct hit would not get them in the kitchen or other back rooms. For the first time since the war began, veteran correspondents in the lobbies of their favorite hotels joined repeatedly in mad, trampling scrambles into back rooms. A direct hit on the Hotel Ritz destroyed the ballroom at one blast. No guest was killed by this bomb, among those who escaped being young Bill Rogers, son of the late great Will...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Barcelona Horrors | 3/28/1938 | See Source »

...Treasurer Whitney. Assistant Attorney General McCall found them at Public National Bank as part collateral for the Whitney loan, and, as the Daily News's news section put it, "Richard Whitney ... for the second time in 24 hours [was] fingerprinted and mugged like a Hell's Kitchen package thief and held in $25,000 bail...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Ex-Knight | 3/21/1938 | See Source »

...Union there are periods during each meal when the student waiters, waitresses, and kitchen are rushed by the horde of Freshmen which pours into and crowds every table and chair. These times are the rush hour at breakfast, luncheon, and dinner. They not only strain the speed of the service to the utmost, but also place its accuracy and good-naturedness at a premium. No waitress nor student waiter can be expected to remember all the fine points of the individual orders of eight, twelve, or sixteen men. Nor, under the pressure, can any one expect that...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: TIME-SAVER | 3/9/1938 | See Source »

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