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Word: ladyes (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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It was my good fortune to be a member of Mr. Hutchins' sophomore English during the spring of 1936. I don't believe any English teacher ever lived who could read the Lady of the Lake as he did. Tall, dour in appearance, Mr. Hutchins loves a good...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jun. 19, 1939 | 6/19/1939 | See Source »

A lot of Senate wives were miffed because only about half of their husbands were invited to the garden party at the British Embassy. Last week Sir Ronald Lindsay lunched with Vice President Garner and several Senators at the Capitol and afterward all Senators & wives were invited to the party...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Prodigious Protocol | 6/12/1939 | See Source »

At 9 o'clock one evening this week the Duchess of Kent, chatting merrily with Lord and Lady Portarlington, got in her car outside her house in London's Belgrave Square and drove off with her guests to the cinema to see Wuthering Heights. Not until she returned...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Shot | 6/12/1939 | See Source »

"Nonobjective" art is the purist's name for abstract art in which no trace of actuality remains. A cubist breakdown of the statutory cubist wine bottle and guitar would not qualify. Solomon Guggenheim had grown grey in philanthropy and the copper business before he fell for his first nonobjective...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Like Sun | 6/12/1939 | See Source »

Bob Crawford, traveling salesman for a picture-frame firm, always hoped to make more than $30 a week, but never got much more, even after his boss bought him an automobile. His wife moped in her mother's big, heavily mortgaged house in Brooklyn, blamed herself when their baby...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Sales Talk | 6/12/1939 | See Source »

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