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Word: overent (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Uncle Don last week became a wider problem. He started broadcasting for Maltex Cereal over five MBS outlets. His first week on the network won him a few plaudits, but generally the parents were slightly snippy. Said a Western New York Federation of Women's Clubs executive in Buffalo...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Snork, Punk | 10/9/1939 | See Source »

With his Duchess in tow, the Duke of Windsor entered swank Fortnum & Mason's department store in London, interrupted a Welsh Guardsman at the biscuit counter: "Are you buying biscuits, too?" No, said the Guardsman, he was getting a camp bed and a few warm things. Tickled to be...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Oct. 9, 1939 | 10/9/1939 | See Source »

Manhattan's winter nightlife season got under way, set New York society columnists to twittering over the new nightspots and their patrons. Most twittery spot: the new Hawaiian Maisonette of the swank St. Regis Hotel. Most twittered-of socialites: Tobacco Millionheiress Doris Duke and her husband James Henry Roberts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Oct. 9, 1939 | 10/9/1939 | See Source »

When her publishers suggested that she write a children's book, Gertrude Stem was delighted with the idea. Many a grown-up and many a child will be delighted with the result, especially if grownups follow directions by reading it out loud-"if you have any trouble, read faster...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Rose Is a Gertrude | 10/9/1939 | See Source »

In the third quarter Cowen, fullback for Exeter, scored on a two-yard back. Another determined Exeter drive was climaxed by Haslan's line plunge over the touchdown stripe, while the Stahleymen got another tally when McNicol again completed an serial, this time to Calch Loring. Hayes' spectacular dash in...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Exeter Downs Yardlings, 20-14 | 10/9/1939 | See Source »

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