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Word: neatly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...TIME'S account was accurate to a gnat's heel. You didn't even slip up on any of the neat little phrases that the publicity man naïvely inserted in the copy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Feb. 14, 1938 | 2/14/1938 | See Source »

...young gentleman glanced at his reflection again and expanded his chest to a neat 32. Then, sliding into his well-pressed reversible, he announced...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Crime | 2/9/1938 | See Source »

Lawrence began the scoring on a neat turn shot from the free throw line, but rapidly faded and did not threaten the Yardlings again. At half time the score was 24-11 for the Freshmen, and Coach Skip Stahley inserted his subs freely at the end of the third quarter...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: YARDLING FIVE ROUTS LAWRENCE BY 51 TO 20 | 2/9/1938 | See Source »

...better melodrama than a sermon, Stop-Over assembles its characters by a neat device. On the night that Bartley Langthorne (Sidney Blackmer), a played-out romantic actor, returns to his small town mansion for a rest cure, Halloween pranksters plant a Tourists Accommodated sign in his front yard. Tourists pour in, but cannot pour out because the housekeeper's gangster husband (Arthur Byron) holds them prisoners with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Jan. 24, 1938 | 1/24/1938 | See Source »

...thigh, she socks him, he socks her back into the muck, swings off into the tangled forest. On his next visit he fights off an enraged lioness, but when he zips back into his trees, nobody will believe Eleanor's story. Then one day Eleanor, clad in a neat white jumper suit, strolls into the bush. Tarzan snatches her away to his eyrie. On the bank of his jungle swimming hole Tarzan makes funny motions, meaning "Can you swim?" Yes, Mrs. Jarrett can swim. Off comes the jumper, revealing a natty white swimsuit (see cut) and in she dives...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Jan. 17, 1938 | 1/17/1938 | See Source »

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