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Word: lot (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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While patient Mrs. Kuhn said she would stay by her husband, while the trial nodded on again, it was plain for all to see that loving the Führer in a foreign land had caused Fritz Kuhn a lot of trouble. Introduced as evidence were two notes by Mayor LaGuardia and Tom Dewey, written before Kuhn's arrest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEW YORK: Trouble | 12/4/1939 | See Source »

Another Tiger, capable Jim Worth, and Dartmouth's Dan Dacey, receive top ranking in a season which produced few good guards. Worth, Dacey, Dunbar of Cornell, and Burnam of Yale were the best of a poor lot. Worth's experience and Dacey's speed put them on the first eleven...

Author: By Joseph P. Lyford, Donald Peddle, and Sheffield West, S | Title: Cornell Places Four Men on Crimson 1939 All-Ivy Eleven | 12/1/1939 | See Source »

...quizzical eyebrows, scotch and sodas, and gift for repartee quite intact. Unhappily, Dashfell Hammett's plot gives Mr. Powell somewhat less support than his hospital bed and consequently the film fails to live up to the previous Thin Man standard. However, Myrna Loy and Asta are around too Lot to mention Nick Charles, Jr. and they combine their talents with a capable cast to create a better than average photoplay...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE MOVIEGOER | 12/1/1939 | See Source »

Queerest-looking of the lot was Vice President Alexander Hamilton Stephens, one of Georgia's most brilliant lawyers, an admirer of Lincoln and Davis' bitterest foe. Weighing around 90 Ibs., hollow-chested, skeleton-faced, he was so tiny that a fellow-traveler once said to him: "Sonny, get up and give your seat to the gentleman." He read the Anatomy of Melancholy for his violent fits of blues, once cried out: "What have I not suffered from a look!" His good pal was hulking, roundheaded, roaring, witty, Rabelaisian Secretary of State Robert Toombs, great orator and charmer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Queer Cabinet | 11/27/1939 | See Source »

...exercising our right to say that we don't take much stock in equality between the sexes. The girls who will be up here this weekend are, most of them, products of 'higher' education among women, and they are a hard drinking, hard swearing lot, and not one in a hundred who wouldn't flunk out of Dartmouth College. --The Daily Dartmouth

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PRESS | 11/27/1939 | See Source »

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