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Word: live (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Quiet, exclusive, they will live by themselves, speaking bastard languages, growing fat, tending their flowers. Backwoods people, they live in the city of Allentown Queen of the Lehigh Valley, population about...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Aug. 30, 1937 | 8/30/1937 | See Source »

Just as Mussolini had got into his stride he caught sight of two gigantic signs that Sicilians had erected for his pleasure. Blazoned on them in white were the words: "Long live our volunteers in Spain." He stopped short, angrily ordered them removed. "I am making a speech of peace," he thundered, "and such signs are inappropriate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: Speech of Peace | 8/30/1937 | See Source »

...dramatizes actual criminal careers. The killing of Dillinger Gangster Homer Van Meter was the subject of one hair-raising episode, but "Gangbusters" has not confined itself to dead lawbreakers. The dramatization of the capture of Massachusetts' murdering Millen Brothers was broadcast prior to their electrocution and many a live but lesser robber, forger and gangster has had his story told. Until last week there had never been a squawk from the criminal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Law: Durkin v. Drama | 8/30/1937 | See Source »

...Manhattan, one Max Berger, 70, stepped into an East Side subway at 125th St. carrying under his arm a live chicken. Intended for his dinner, it had been presented to him by his sweetheart. Forthright little Mr. Berger plumped himself down into a seat and began to pluck feathers from the chicken's hind quarters, reciting, presumably: "She loves me, she loves me not," to the accompaniment of horrified squawks from the chicken. Presently a Brooklyn passenger named Kay Nelson protested to Mr. Berger. Mr. Berger reassured Mr. Nelson. Said he, "I am only taking off the feathers because...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Aug. 30, 1937 | 8/30/1937 | See Source »

...live, to breathe a prescribed and rationed air!-All free

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Oh, God, Why Live | 8/30/1937 | See Source »

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