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Word: nicks (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...appears....it must be, I have it straight from Winchell....and he knows about that sort of thing....just one more before the fish eggs....Winter Place you aay?....I don't think they'll let us....you'll remember last time....the artichokes right through the transom onto Nick Stuhl....yes and Stogie threw oysters in the electric fan....well perhaps....just one before the fish eggs....ah, don't be a snitface...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "Why You Have Headaches" or "Champagne, Mirabeau, and Mooseheads," in Just One Act | 11/8/1930 | See Source »

...Perhaps that will be a good thing!'' snapped wrathful Employer Ford. But squirming Employe Sir Percival hopped up in time's nick, blandished the journalists before they got away...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Henry Ford's Way | 10/20/1930 | See Source »

...Pelter's enemy Corning discovers Pelter's secret, that all Mirthful Haven but no summer visitor knows. He tips off the revenue cutter. That night Pelter is led into a trap, tries to escape, is shot. Then everything comes out. Mrs. Corning rescues her son in the nick of time from his fishing-village demimondaine; he allows himself to be rescued, leaves without even saying goodbye. Instead, he sends his brother to make family apologies for her father's death. Later in the year, when the same brother comes to Mirthful Haven on business, he finds...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Hoosier's Maine* | 9/22/1930 | See Source »

...predicament. Mary Astor is properly severe and gracious as Julia. Ann Harding, as her little sister Linda, is less mannered and more attractive than was Hope Williams on the stage. Robert Ames grins and frowns as Johnny Case. The whimsicality of Edward Everett Horton, impersonating Linda's friend Nick Potter, sometimes threatens to grow stubborn, but he finds the proper gestures for Playwright Barry's famed success-story monolog, "How I Invented the Bottle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures Jul. 14, 1930 | 7/14/1930 | See Source »

...McLean, Va., Col. Herbert David pastured a valuable prize calf on his front lawn. A thief carried the calf away in the rumble seat of a motor car, sold it to a slaughter house for $12. Col. David found and bought it back in the nick of time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Jun. 23, 1930 | 6/23/1930 | See Source »

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