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Word: mountaineerers (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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The prosecutor tried to show that Edith was a fast filly who had saddened her honest mountaineer father with her late hours and citified ways. But he could not shake her story of the fight. It was further corroborated by 11-year-old Sister Mary Catherine who, when twitted by...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Mountain Murder | 12/2/1935 | See Source »

Not President Roosevelt, not Secretary Morgenthau, not Senate Finance Committee Chairman Pat Harrison, not Share-the-Wealther Huey Long, in fact hardly anyone except the rawboned, 6 ft.-2 in. North Carolina mountaineer who is Chairman of the House Ways & Means Committee had a good word to say in public...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TAXATION: Thrift, Hope & Charity | 8/12/1935 | See Source »

Last autumn her talent for mimicry and histrionics was displayed before an admiring hometown audience, in the amateur theatre of the Palo Alto Community Players. Asked to take the part of the Widow Cagle in Lula Vollmers play of southern mountaineer white trash, Sun-Up (see front cover), Mrs. Norris...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Golden Honeymoon | 1/28/1935 | See Source »

Jonas Lauretz, mountaineer sawmiller, was a hard man and not a good one. A notable blasphemer, drunkard, cuckolder and seducer, he was a byword in the district, but his neighbors did not know the half of it. He beat his wife, crippled his son, tried to rape his daughter, kept...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Alpine Stock | 1/14/1935 | See Source »

Tight Britches (by John Taintor Foote and Hubert Hayes; Laurence Rivers, Inc., producer) pries into the sexual problems of a handsome young North Carolina mountaineer (Shepperd Strudwick) whom neither God nor the girls can let alone. Off and on he turns down the prettiest wench (Joanna Roos) and the richest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Sep. 24, 1934 | 9/24/1934 | See Source »

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