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Word: muffin (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Divorced. Betty Grable, 22, muffin-pretty, blonde cinemactress; from Jackie ("The Kid") Coogan, 24, once famed child cinemactor; in Los Angeles. Grounds: cruelty...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Oct. 23, 1939 | 10/23/1939 | See Source »

...pictures at the rate of three a day. He ran home from P.S. 42, where he was in the fourth grade (he would have skipped a grade except that he got scarlet fever), drank a glass of milk, and hurried across the street to paint, using an old muffin tin for a palette. "His talent," said his awed teacher, Philip Bibel, "is accompanied by the most amazing energy I have ever encountered.'' He painted cowboys, G-Men, scenes from movies, elevated trains, football players, his playmates, views of Claremont Parkway and Washington Avenue, and the scene that meets...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: A. Cohen Pinxit | 7/25/1938 | See Source »

...fanatical hater of flies. Dose Muffin dies chasing one into a buzzsaw. Ready for burial, Dose jumps up, yells for a flyswatter. When it is brought he lies down again, swats the fly in his coffin, makes no further fuss as the dirt is shoveled over...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Feeler | 6/20/1938 | See Source »

...Canadian soldier in a British hospital. Afterward he got a job painting automobiles for the Pontiac experimental department, later for Oklahoma City's Pontiac dealer, Chieftain Motors, Inc. At this work he developed a fine handiness with the Duco spray gun. Finally the heavy-browed, muffin-faced War veteran undertook to use his spray gun to paint pictures...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Arts: Duco | 8/5/1935 | See Source »

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