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Word: lookers (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...first look, he headed for Paris, had his car sideswiped on the way in the reconstructed town of Arras, called in the top-flight Paris correspondents, questioned them closely on the European political situation. Next day Looker & Listener Hoover conferred with President Albert Lebrun in his Elysée Palace. During a brief stay in Geneva he piqued League officials by ignoring their new $10,000,000 palace, instead motored to nearby Morges and chatted "about old times" with his friend of 40 years, 77-year-old Pianist-Politician Ignacy Jan Paderewski, former Premier of Poland, now in Switzerland...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: Looker & Listener | 4/4/1938 | See Source »

...especially important at Harvard this year because the Crimson squad can usually supply an outstanding first-place man in almost every event. Charlie Hutten, Graham Cummin and Willie Kendall generally finish so far ahead of their opponents that the actual competitive racing that appeals to the on-looker is found in the battles for second and third...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Lining Them Up | 2/15/1938 | See Source »

...must be repeated that the greatest satisfaction which may be derived from this exhibit is possibly just a succession of views of Mexican life. If this is the case, the on-looker will do well to examine the circular...

Author: By C. C. P., | Title: Collections and Critiques | 10/28/1937 | See Source »

...subscriber, reader, and admirer of TIME. I am also a subscriber, "looker," and admirer of LIFE. There are, I am certain, many more throughout the world. I want to register one complaint, however. The two magazines come too close together, sometimes by the same mail. In such cases I am like the proverbial ass standing between two haystacks of equal attractiveness. Wouldn't it be possible to have LIFE come earlier in the week? I believe many subscribers would appreciate this...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Feb. 22, 1937 | 2/22/1937 | See Source »

...drunken man's knife plunged into the general's belly just before the crack of dawn, pretty faces have to be slapped, bullets to fly, traitors to be betrayed, instruments of torture to be brandished, and never-say-die men to be put to the acid test. The looker-on is guaranteed his full share of anxious gulps by this simple, undiluted tale of thrills. The lofty, chiselled beauty of Madeleinie Carrol is a bit surpassed by the whirlwind nature of the plot, but the masculinity of Gary Cooper is brought to the fore, from the scene where he takes...

Author: By E. C. B., | Title: The Crimson Moviegoer | 10/26/1936 | See Source »

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