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Word: ladyes (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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¶ Regretted that the first woman M. P. remains so incurably trivial a headline-snatcher when Lady Astor, showing the neat ankle of a Langhorne of Virginia, introduced the topic of her openwork silk stockings. After publicly regretting that she has to import them from the U. S. and pay...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Parliament's Week: Jul. 22, 1935 | 7/22/1935 | See Source »

Dr. Kanner urges parents to be patient with bothersome children, to tell them all the truth they can understand, to lie never, to beat them never, to show them a composed, orderly example ever. If a parent provides such a common sense environment for his child to grow up in...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MEDICINE: Naughty Children | 7/15/1935 | See Source »

Escapade (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer) is the result of superimposing upon the pattern of Viennese waltz-time romance the kind of highly contemporary comedy of which William Powell is currently Hollywood's ablest exponent. That the result is mildly entertaining is thanks partly to Powell, partly to Director Robert Z...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures: Jul. 15, 1935 | 7/15/1935 | See Source »

Her name rarely appears on Metropolitan Opera programs. But she has sung in Manhattan's old opera house for 27 seasons. In Der Rosenkavalier she is a Viennese lady, handsome in bouffant black. In Lohengrin she is a bewigged wedding guest. In Mignon she gets a laugh, mincing along...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MUSIC: Old Girl | 7/15/1935 | See Source »

* At that time occurred the notorious Cosden robbery in which $100,000 worth of diamonds, pearls and rubies were filched from Mrs. Cosden's dressing table. Lady Mountbatten lost $42,000 of jewelry tossed on a tray near her bed.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Cosden to Cover | 7/15/1935 | See Source »

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