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Word: lorring (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...smirk nor schmalz by onetime Preacher Frank Luther and a few assistants, these songs give a clearer glimpse of the old-time U. S. than many a ponderous history book. The U. S. soldier of the 1860's sang about his girl (Lorena), his mother (Who Will Care lor Mother Now?), his pesky bumps & bruises (Eating Goober Peas, A Life on the Vicksburg Bluff) as simply, sentimentally and humanly as his grandson did in the World War. Sample (North...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Songs of the U. S. | 5/22/1939 | See Source »

Effective from April 28 to October 28, the fair tickets will be good lor two months, allow any number of stopovers, any selection of routes, so that no traveling step need be retraced. Up to 8,500 miles may be traveled for one fare. Straight coach tickets for this mileage would cost $130. Exultantly cried one-man Washington lobby, New York State's ex-Senator John A. Hastings: "The sole question remaining is, why not Postal-ize fares 365 days a year to all points...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: Fair Fare | 2/13/1939 | See Source »

...hisel tae flee tae France. An' noo they'd commit th' sacrilege o' mudrerin' th' name o' th' Standard Bearer himsel. altho' weel they ken that when God or th' Empire want something hard dane, He or It send lor th' Scots...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jan. 9, 1939 | 1/9/1939 | See Source »

...Highest price ever paid lor a thoroughbred is $300,000. Last week Martin Benson, London bookmaker, paid that amount for undefeated Xearco, an Italian horse who won the Grand Prix at Paris last fortnight, his 14th victory in a row. Only other $300,000 purchase price was for Call Boy, 1927 Epsom Derby winner...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Double Disappointment | 7/11/1938 | See Source »

...trotted side by side. Calvin Coolidge's white collie Rob Roy, Katharine Cornell's flop-eared cocker Flush in The Barretts of Wimpole Street started fashions. But from year to year the $75.000,000-per-year dog business finds Westminster's best a prime fashion factor, lor the choice of the No. 1 judge in the No. 1 dog show tends to become the people's choice. Before John Bates made his style-setting choice, the dogs judged best in every breed were pitted against one another in six semifinal contests...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Animals: 1 of 3,093 | 2/21/1938 | See Source »

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