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Word: morely (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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>The Thin Man formula (exciting murder mystery plus fast, racy dialogue plus an equable, wisecracking, Scotch-bibbing married couple plus real people in a weird jumbling together of underworld and overworld) was good for several more workings.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Dec. 11, 1939 | 12/11/1939 | See Source »

Phelps Dodge's Louis Gates is pitting new U. S. smelting practice against the rutted methods of the British trust. Freight, insurance and greater demand have so far pushed the New York tin price approximately 29% above London. In spite of the ore handicap, Phelps Dodge can more than...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: METALS: Tintinnabulations | 12/11/1939 | See Source »

In Chicago, meanwhile, Stone set up a firm of his own which was as brilliant commercially as the old partnership had been artistically. In 1900 he got a best seller, George Ade's More Fables in Slang. Next year he got another in George Barr McCutcheon's Graustark...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Young Man's Literature | 12/11/1939 | See Source »

U. S. anti-fascist novels, written at 3,000 miles removed from fascist reality, are too often the sort which make a Führer out of every bully. James T. Farrell's Jew-hating young Brooklyn Irishman, a bellicose introvert who sells Father Moylan's Christian Justice...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Fifty Man Years | 12/11/1939 | See Source »

Michael Beam-Richard Matthews Hallet-Houghton Mifflin ($2.50). As in many another recent frontier romance, Michael Beam likes Indians better and his creator writes more cautiously than used to be the case.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Fifty Man Years | 12/11/1939 | See Source »

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