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Word: lakes (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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They cleaned the cans off the Heinz sample counter, fell-or jumped-into Fountain Lake, leaped on the revolving platform in the Glass Center patio for a merry-go-round, scrambled up the rigging of the clipper ship Yankee, exchanged black eyes, rushed across flower beds, awed barkers, frightened monkeys in Jungleland, slid down a spiral staircase in the Street of Tomorrow, wrote their names on every virgin wall, on the base of the Perisphere, and George Washington's feet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEW YORK: Giddy and Gaudy | 11/6/1939 | See Source »

...Swiss border from Basel to Lake Constance: 12 divisions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WESTERN THEATRE: Pigeons In, Men Out | 11/6/1939 | See Source »

...audience. Walking to the footlights and pointing, Barrymore shouted: "There's that old bastard Ned Sparks." Once he couldn't hear the prompter in the wings, yelled: "Give those cues louder!" Once he said to the heroine: "I'll take you to ," couldn't remember "Lake Como...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: Scotch Mist | 11/6/1939 | See Source »

...paintings are mostly of common scenes around Chicago. In greens, reds, blues that are raw but seldom harsh, he paints sleazy streets of ramshackle houses, old women haggling at a fruit stand, batting practice in the Cubs' ball park (where he once sold score-cards), knobby bathers by Lake Michigan. Says he: "The shabbier parts of Chicago are what intrigue me." Less intrigued is Mrs. Frank Granger Logan ("Sanity in Art"), who stormed "It isn't worth a nickel," when a Bohrod picture of a filling station won top honors and her $500 prize at the 1937 Chicago...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Optimistic Realist | 11/6/1939 | See Source »

...CRYING SISTERS-Mabel Seeley-Crime Club ($2). As creepy as Author Seeley's The Listening House, this one plunges a blameless Minnesota librarian into murderous enigmas when she agrees to care for a widower's small son at a resort on Crying Sisters Lake...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Murder in October | 11/6/1939 | See Source »

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