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Word: palming (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Cherokee alphabet. She had sung, lectured on Indians, ridden a horse at New York's Hippodrome. She studied enough law to defend her $5,000,000 legacy from her husband against the children of the first Mrs. Croker. She became one of the largest landed proprietors of West Palm Beach...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICAL NOTES: Widow Croker | 1/20/1930 | See Source »

Last week, along with Miss M. Lawrence Wetherill, Philadelphia socialite etcher, she was nominated for West Palm Beach's town council. Well trained in Democracy by her husband, her election seemed assured...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICAL NOTES: Widow Croker | 1/20/1930 | See Source »

...shoulders rise the second fingers of the right and left hands snap simultaneously from thumb to palm with a crisp double report. * In 1927 he adjusted a six-month dispute between the miners and mineowners of northern France which had threatened to tie up the entire French coal industry...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Sitting Down | 1/20/1930 | See Source »

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