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Word: live (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...says, Lillian Gibson, a Tennessee hill-girl of 15, went to school at Stump Valley, near Shelbyville, started home from school- later her teacher said she came running frantically back . . . screaming, "I am going to have a baby." This is absolutely untrue, in that this little girl does not live in the hills-not a Tennessee hill-girl. There is no such school as "Stump Valley." The teacher never made the statement that the little girl said, "I am going to have a baby." These statements are untrue...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jan. 21, 1935 | 1/21/1935 | See Source »

...mountain's 20 monastic communities live some 5,000 monks. That they may not be led into temptation, not only are women banned but also beardless boys (under 18) and female animals whose matings might "furnish an outlandish spectacle to souls which . . . are daily being purified." Spiritually preoccupied with an attainable Heaven, an avoidable Hell, the Athonites do not always succeed in resisting the prickings of the flesh. Investigator Choukas found overwhelming evidence for the stories he had heard about the perverted tastes of these black-bonneted men of God. Nor was he pleased to find that as regards...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Cenobites & Idiorrhythmics | 1/21/1935 | See Source »

...Times. He began life as a smalltime vaudeville hoofer. During the War his father died, left him a bankrupt laundry. From it Son George built the most successful laundry business in Washington, with 50 gaudy blue-&-gold branch stores on strategic street corners, each blazoning the slogan "Long Live Linen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Hearst Housecleaning | 1/14/1935 | See Source »

Henry Ford will be 72 next July. A lean, lonely figure roaming through his museum or fiddling with his old music boxes, he has lived five years of Depression without apparent change. He is trying to decentralize the vastest concentration of industry the world has ever seen by establishing small accessory plants in rural districts where workers can live on the land. He and his lady are seen more frequently at Detroit social functions. His spat with the Administration over his stubborn refusal to sign the Automobile Code is forgiven & forgotten...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Race of Three | 1/14/1935 | See Source »

...listened demurely while officials of ERA invited her to grace their show. Then "Little Eva" shook her white head, stamped her spry foot. Stormed she: "I'm tired of the old play. I don't care if I never see it again as long as I live...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Jan. 14, 1935 | 1/14/1935 | See Source »

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