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Word: liquorish (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...character to challenge Vance for sheer orneriness. He was a psychopathic drunkard called Marsden (Earle Larimore). He did not keep mice in his bedroom but he killed bugs when a boy. He, too, terrified the inhabitants of a gloomy Manhattan mansion. Marsden had been abused by an equally liquorish father when a child, which accounted for the fiendish campaign he put on to terrify his wife (Barbara Robbins) into giving him a son of his own to torture. Since Marsden makes no effort to temper his dangerous lunacy to the other five members of an excellent cast, they all have...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Dec. 2, 1935 | 12/2/1935 | See Source »

...which he had shrewdly enriched himself by selling foodstuffs to the French, a formidable British wholesale grocer named John Johnston found himself surprisingly afflicted with dyspepsia. Disgusted by the remedies then in vogue, he chose to make a new one, out of beef. Bovril, in its squat, liquorish bottles, is now capitalized for ?3,000,000, has ?6,000,000 of assets including 1,300,000 acres of cattleland in the Argentine and 9,000,000 acres in Australia, where "Bovril" is the slang equivalent for applesauce or baloney. Last week, Bovril, Ltd. of London launched a new company called...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Britain's Bottle | 2/1/1932 | See Source »

Although the Waldorf will frown on rowdy conventions, it will welcome such dignified assemblages as the General Motors Convention in January and that of the American College of Surgeons in February. Loose and liquorish though it always becomes, the Beaux-Arts Ball retains enough arty prestige to have been invited (and obtained) away from the Astor across town. The Canadian Club will have headquarters in the hotel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Grand Hotel | 9/28/1931 | See Source »

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