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Word: lot (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Philadelphia suburb near which they live, the Bryans' gracious hospitality is a byword and to both gentry and tenantry alike Mr. Bryan is known as Big Hearted Joe. He hasn't got any St. George in the middle of his name, either. You people have a lot to learn about Joe Bryan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jan. 17, 1938 | 1/17/1938 | See Source »

...years ago on a novel platform -to keep the late Huey Long from annexing that State to his domain-millionaire Lumberman Hugh White has since ably maintained his reputation for originality. When a reporter once asked him about his favorite hobby, the 250-lb. Governor shyly replied: "A lot of fellows think I'm kidding when I say it ... but what I would rather do than anything else is to sit on the fence and listen to a little pig three months old crack corn. That...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MISSISSIPPI: Home Is a Home | 1/17/1938 | See Source »

...London bookstores last week offered the first account of the Abdication written for tiny tots, Kings and Things by H. E. Marshall: "King Edward loved a lady and wanted to marry her . . . but a whole lot of people all over the Empire didn't like her much and didn't want her to be Queen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Loved a Lady | 1/17/1938 | See Source »

Anyone who goes to see "Rosalie" will learn a lot about a lot of things. For instance, that Vassar girls live in sumptuous quarters with a complete lack of police protection or how a West Point football coach tells an All-American to play against Navy...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Moviegoer | 1/11/1938 | See Source »

...given. Mr. Eddy, however good his voice may be, is not fitted to be a cadet. And besides this, they have taken Miss MacDonald away from Mr. Eddy and, instead, have given him Eleanor Powell, who shows a complete inability to add anything. Miss Powell dances down a lot of drums in a pair of black stockings in another of those sickening extravaganzas. Add an assinine plot and you have the almost complete story...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Moviegoer | 1/11/1938 | See Source »

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