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Word: knocked (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...time, instead of somehow conveying, as she does in the book, the idea of an endless and agonized waiting. An incident of this period, perhaps the most poignant of all, in which Gaud leaps from bed in the midst of a rainy night, in answer to a knock, only to find that it is not her lover Yann, is entirely omitted from the film...

Author: By E. C. B., | Title: The Moviegoer | 5/7/1936 | See Source »

...months it grew so unpopular that it was repealed. The New Jersey Legislature which met last January could not agree on another form of relief taxation. So last week, after every cent of State money not legally tied up for other uses had been spent, the Legislature decided to knock off for six days...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RELIEF: Jobless Invasion | 5/4/1936 | See Source »

...asinine laugh and waving hands, manages to get tangled up with Joan Blondell, chocolate dipper in one of the Ames' factories, and wishes to make her his adopted daughter. Moonfaced Jack Oakie steps in and further complicates the plot until the doughty Donald whips him soundly in a knock-em-down-and-drag-em-out battle which is conducted off-stage to the tune of breaking glass and falling objects to preserve the unities and Donald...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Moviegoer | 5/1/1936 | See Source »

International sportsmen were not hard pressed to discover a motive for Herr von Tschammer und Osten's outburst. Negro Louis is almost sure to knock the daylights out of 100% Aryan Schmeling...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Is That Necessary?'' | 4/20/1936 | See Source »

Arthur Peyton, slick-haired young engineer who once worked in the tunnel, declared: "The men were driven into the tunnel right after the blasting. The foremen used pick handles and drilling steel to knock the Negroes on the head if they refused to enter immediately." He asserted that the blackamoors were paid $3 a day, and that they were charged 10% for cashing their checks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Silicosis | 2/3/1936 | See Source »

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