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Word: nextly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Charlie McCarthy, Alice Faye, Joe Penner, Frances Langford. Its popularity is still impressive, but not so impressive as that of later rival food merchandisers like Jack Benny (JellO) or Bing Crosby (Kraft Music Hall). Last week Standard Brands and Vallée announced an amicable parting of the ways next September 28, within crooning distance of their tenth anniversary. Of his plans, Rudy Vallée characteristically observed: " 'My Time Has Been Your Time' for ten solid years, and it will be yours again after 'My Time Has Been My Time' for a little while...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Vall | 8/7/1939 | See Source »

Nowadays Carl Shannon is the highest paid man on his paper, next to the editor-in-chief. He is neat, careful, dignified and exacting. He will pass no headline that begins or ends with a preposition, and to him all two-letter words are prepositions. He expects to spend the rest of his life on the Enterprise and says: "I'm too old to be changing jobs any more." His friends think he is older than the 57 years he confesses to, but admit that he might just look older...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Old Timers | 8/7/1939 | See Source »

Feeling pleased with himself about that, Newsboy Heckman next set about selling his papers, delivering himself thuswise: "They're scrapping the treaties! They'll scrap anything! But they CAIN'T scrap the LORD! He's here to stay! John L. Lewis shouldn't 'a' done it! Old Cactus Jack is all right! My Goodness! My Goodness...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Old Timers | 8/7/1939 | See Source »

...cash crops. Not so, corn. Nearly nine out of ten bushels are used to feed hogs and livestock. The lower the price, the more feed for hogs; the more hogs, the lower the price of pork. With corn at 40? there should be many pigs in 1940. If next spring's pig crop reaches 80,000,000 little grunters, pigs and pork prices will nosedive, and Washington will have still another quota on its hands...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CROPS: Irony | 8/7/1939 | See Source »

...Best customer, United Kingdom; next, Canada...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FOREIGN TRADE: Economic War? | 8/7/1939 | See Source »

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