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Word: ladyes (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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John MacNev's letter of protest against the misuse of "John"-"Johnnies to us"-(TIME, Jan. n, p. 9), may I add the plea of a respected and respectable maiden lady against the humiliating abuse of her name. Born in the good old days when the children of the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Feb. 1, 1937 | 2/1/1937 | See Source »

Navy Department makes surprisingly good entertainment. En route to the Olympic Games as a javelin thrower, Phil Donlan (Paul Kelly) unwisely lets himself be involved in a shipboard party celebrating the elopement of two of his fellow passengers. Their marriage fails to materialize but he gets tossed off the Olympic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Feb. 1, 1937 | 2/1/1937 | See Source »

First to be seen is the wood sculpture or wood carving. The record of this is to be national in scope but it is the New England beginning which is shown us here. It is sturdy, realistic, at times decorative, but it is always purposeful. The figureheads usually illustrate the...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Collections and Critiques | 1/29/1937 | See Source »

Being a Lady, Elinor Glyn has not told everything. Locked away in her diaries, the "unvarnished truth" is still imprisoned. But in Romantic Adventure she has let out some, after giving it a ladylike shellacking. Born on the Island of Jersey of Scotch-Canadian parents, Elinor Glyn (nee Sutherland) spent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Lady on Tiger Skins | 1/25/1937 | See Source »

Now back in England, her nearly native land, Elinor Glyn is an old lady, with two grandsons at Eton, but her hair has not yet turned grey. Her London drawing room has tiger skins galore, not one spittoon. Ending her romantic memories on a mystic note of hope, she says...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Lady on Tiger Skins | 1/25/1937 | See Source »

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