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Word: latters (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...twisty Free Bridge last week went a rag-tag troupe of some 300 men clad in odds & ends of martial raiment-an old overseas cap here, a dirty olive drab tunic there. A few carried pails in which to make coffee and stews, a few carried clubs. The latter served as "military police." They were supposed to suppress vandalism, prevent radical speechmaking, see that none of the company begged or got drunk. One man carried clippings to show that before the Depression he was an Omaha broker who was ordered to pay $45,000 alimony. All were War veterans with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HEROES: Bummers | 6/6/1932 | See Source »

...have it or "Measure for Measure" as Mr. Seabury prefers depends upon the decision of a Mr. Roosevelt in Albany, to whom the matter has been referred for arbitration. Mr. Roosevelt, it has been learned, has left home, leaving a message that he would not be back until the latter part of November...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE PLAY | 6/3/1932 | See Source »

...well as two three-base hits and two homers. Mays is the other member of the team hitting over .400. He has hit 24 times for a score of .421. Sprague and Gleason are both batting .500. The former, however, was at bat only four times and the latter...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Wood Leads Harvard Batting With .491 Average as Entire Team Hits .300--Devens Has 109 Strikeouts in 78 Innings | 6/3/1932 | See Source »

Only two political cartoons were shown in his first U. S. exhibition last week, The House Restaurant in Washington, and Senate-The Republican Cloakroom. Of the latter the New York Evening Post's critic Margaret Bruening wrote: "It is an indictment of democratic government that is appalling, yet its poignant significance does not obscure the delightful quality of its humor." The other cartoons shown were street scenes of Paris, New York, London and that sport of all caricaturists from Tenniel to Ralph Barton, burlesques of famed paintings. Czermanski's is a subtle satire, the more effective because...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Caricaturist | 5/30/1932 | See Source »

Hardly less gory and sincere were Sammy Fuller and Jack ("Kid") Berg in New York, the former outpointing the latter in twelve rounds. Fuller's victory was supposed to entitle him to meet the champion, Tony Canzoneri, between whom and Petrolle there is little to choose...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Lightweight Gore | 5/30/1932 | See Source »

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