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Word: lurks (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...background of the lurid light cast by the festive campfires of the triumphant bonuseers lurk menancing shadows. The immediate and pressing question is how to finance the two and one-half billion dollar payment. It has occured to some few souls that the money must be raised by taxation, either deferred or immediate, but such persons are not to be found in Congress or the lobbying headquarters of the American Legion. Even the reputed magician in charge of the Treasury has openly expressed skepticism as to the means and probable facility of raising the money...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: LIGHTS AND SHADOWS | 1/29/1936 | See Source »

...bigger nose but his make-up in general was unworthy of an actor with cinema training. His big voice boomed and he used brute force in his tussle with Lehmann. But his audience remembered too well the cunning of Scotti, the insinuating grace, the evil that seemed to lurk even in the folds of his cape...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Tosca Recast | 4/1/1935 | See Source »

...stomachs of those who have never experienced an Eliot House repast, there may lurk the false assumption that Lowell House has a monopoly on worm-ridden fish, bad eggs, wizened grape-fruit, oily orange-juice, moribund chops, all-wool pancakes, bilious liver, vegetables that smell as sweet by any other name, and so forth, down the pallid lists of the oleaginous concatenation of convalescing vitamins served at room temperature and garnished with the cadavers of the insect world. My gorge rises at the thought! I challenge any of the seven cross-sections to greater right to complaint. For the honor...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE MAIL | 3/26/1935 | See Source »

...country for them to join; 3) to flabbergast the world with a fresh, monster demonstration of German loyalty to the Realmleader. After Orator Hitler's speech, according to the State's handout, "he was rewarded with spontaneous applause. One might well say that surely treason does not lurk about him. Only loyalty stands watch over...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: Operatic Mystery | 1/14/1935 | See Source »

...went crazy. No. 13 had just come up on the wheel he was spinning. Jumping up wild-eyed from his doughnut, he seized handfuls of 10,000 franc chips, flung them wildly all over the room. Ladies and gentlemen said the Casino's famed "suicide squad" (supposed to lurk behind the roulette room's mirrored doors ready to deal with any loser who shoots himself) promptly appeared and spirited the jibbering croupier away...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MONACO: Crazy Croupier | 1/15/1934 | See Source »

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