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Word: ladyes (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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After addressing the audience, in which representation of the fair sex was weak, as "Lady and Gentlemen," Professor Mather said that the Bill is a direct insult to the Corporation of Harvard, since it considers them incapable of selecting their own faculty without legal aid. He held that oaths do...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MATHER SEES OATH AS DEFEAT OF EDUCATION | 3/2/1937 | See Source »

"Oh Kaaay." Senator Ashurst, the soul of oldtime gallantry, would hardly be so rude as to argue against a lady, but it so happened that the arguments he rose to refute were last week most strikingly expressed by a woman. Columnist Dorothy Thompson (whose husband, Sinclair Lewis, wrote It Can...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JUDICIARY: The Big Debate | 3/1/1937 | See Source »

In a Stockton, Calif, insane asylum last week died a fat old woman with wild white hair and a lame hip. She had been locked up for nearly half a century, happily certain that she was a great, rich lady, babbling endlessly about her memories. She could never keep her...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CALIFORNIA: Mad Memories | 3/1/1937 | See Source »

Died. Samuel Shipman, 53, prolific Broadway playwright; of heart disease; in Manhattan. A cynical melodramatist who said he made $1,500,000 in 1918-22 from East Is West, Friendly Enemies, Lawful Larceny and The Woman in Room 13, he frequently dictated his plays to stenographers working in shifts. In...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Feb. 22, 1937 | 2/22/1937 | See Source »

Of the three daughters of a druggist in Silver Bow, Mont., Louise was most beautiful, Grace most domestic, Helen most electric. Louise was one of nature's noblewomen and great things were expected of her, so when she eloped with a hard-drinking sports writer, Silver Bow was shocked...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: 1904 | 2/22/1937 | See Source »

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