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Word: ladyes (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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This protest [Julia M. Peck's letter, TIME, May 8: "I am disgusted. ... On p. 21 (TIME, April 17) you speak of Mrs. Roosevelt . . , whom we all respect and admire, as 'long-legged.' I am ashamed of you."-ED.] amazes me! I'm a sincere admirer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, May 29, 1939 | 5/29/1939 | See Source »

To the Conservative Women's Conference Britain's Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain condescended: "Mrs. Chamberlain is the lady who knows all my secrets but never lets them out, who gently corrects my faults, who never forgets to praise me, who remembers all the things that I forget, and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, May 22, 1939 | 5/22/1939 | See Source »

A pair of 1,200-h.p. Wright Cyclonesrowling in a hangar; a glimpse of green fields through a hole in the overcast; 200m.p.h.; an odd pressure in your ears; a old jet of air in your face; a pretty hostess handing you hot chicken; a sleek transport drifting in to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: To the Big League | 5/22/1939 | See Source »

Died. Mrs. George Anthony Reginald Williams, 43, the former Lady (Sophie) Mary Heath, famed flier (first woman commercial pilot, first woman to loop the loop, first woman to fly solo London-Cape-town) ; of a broken head after a fall down the steps of a double-deck bus; in London...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, May 22, 1939 | 5/22/1939 | See Source »

Perfect housekeeper, cheerful companion, admiring reader, pretty Jane Carlyle tenderly nursed her husband's rockbound dyspepsia with tasty food, his dyspeptic humors with tasty compliments, sparkled wittily for his friends, never complained of poverty or the isolation of dismal winters on the godforsaken farm at Craigenputtock, kept her mouth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Goody | 5/22/1939 | See Source »

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