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Word: lot (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Chancellor of the Exchequer, eloquent William Ewart Gladstone made budget speeches famous. Winston Churchill used to gesture a lot. Neville Chamberlain (now Prime Minister) usually had the amiable duty of announcing surpluses. To Sir John Simon, Chancellor of the Exchequer for nearly two years, has come the unenviable task of "opening" the largest peacetime budgets in Britain's history. Last week, before a crowded House of Commons, he again appeared with the little worn red-leather dispatch box carried by Gladstone, opened it and ceremoniously drew out his sheafs of paper and, in an uninspired, low, monotonous tone...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: We Can Take It | 5/8/1939 | See Source »

...point: one of the six catalogues (Oriental) has precisely the kind of explanatory material he suggested. In his other observations, many a Joe Bloake agreed that he was right as rain. Next day, however, by his own request, Guard Seymour was transferred to duty on a Fair parking lot...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: For Joe Bloake | 5/8/1939 | See Source »

...glided out of her dressing room into the bustle of a rehearsal. Behind the stage a group of half-clad mermaids were clustered about Johnny Weismuller who had condescended to lot them admire his great chest...

Author: By Staff Reporter, | Title: No Aquacade Nudity, Says Miss Holm; Likes Harvard Men, Wants to See Them | 5/5/1939 | See Source »

...made to entice good side-men away from their leaders to fulfill contracts . . . Buddy Shutz, Goodman's drummer, who always gave me a pain in the neck, is leaving with no replacement announced. For a guy that's supposed to be leaving the business. Goodman is making an awful lot of excellent changes. If he keeps on this way, he may soon be back to the level he was in 1935 when he had a band that really swung. And incidentally, it looks as though Martha Tilton, whose good looks far surpassed what warbling she attempted, is going to leave...

Author: By Michael Levin, | Title: Swing | 5/5/1939 | See Source »

...Word has sneaked around that Jeff Fuller '38 has opened his own hot shop in New York City. Come, gentlemen, a little reciprocal trade between Harvard, what? Fuller knows his stuff about records, and from what I can hear about the trips he has been making he has a lot of good rare stock on hand . . . Helen O'Connell, Jimmy Dorsey's singer, goes to RKO in Hollywood at the end of the year...

Author: By Michael Levin, | Title: Swing | 5/5/1939 | See Source »

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