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Word: personably (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...settle the jurisdictional claims of rival C. I. O. & A. F. of L. unions, subsequently allowing the original C. I. 0. unions to return to A. F. of L. as a group. "Such an approach, it seems to us. could not have been stigmatized by any right thinking person as 'treason' or 'desertion' by either side." In other words, the Garment Workers placed responsibility for the breakdown of the peace negotiations squarely on the head of John L. Lewis...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: In Justice | 1/10/1938 | See Source »

Today in Cairo modern gadgets like the telephone are still so interesting to the natives that an Egyptian Cabinet Minister will usually answer in person anyone who dares to ring his number. Very soon last week new Premier Mahmoud was garrulously chatting with British journalists who had simply rung him up from London...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: EGYPT: Royal Fascist? | 1/10/1938 | See Source »

...resemblance to the name of any person, living or dead, is to be regarded as purely coincidental. LOWELLA SALTONPUSS, of Ratcliff Part taken by Lowella Saltonstall FOUFOU SEARS, of Magnolia-by-the-Sea Aunt to Lowella. . . . . . . . . Part taken by foufou Sears, "Mrs. Oklahoma" 1897, Barnum & Bailey Ringling Brothers' Elephant-Skinned Lady 1914 SNUFFY SULLIVAN, of Chelsea-by-the Smell. . . . . . . . . . . . . Part taken by Eustaee P. McGargle A YARD COP . . . . . . . . . . Part taken by a Yard Cop PROFESSOR FREEZY MERMAN, of Harvard, Uncle to Lowella . . . . . Part taken by himself A SECTION MAN . . . . . . . . . . Part taken by a local WPA worker 17 SMALL MEMBERS...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: COMING SOON | 1/7/1938 | See Source »

...seems that dramatic expression is not intimate enough, and after the play is over Miss Greenwood overflows with motherly endearments, sings "An Old Man's Darling" in loud and lusty shrieks, and then burlesques sex in a piece called "Moon Melody," using to capacity her amazingly ungainly person...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Crimson Playgoer | 1/6/1938 | See Source »

...Carey J. Chamberlin, secretary of the Class of 1913, which is gathering together for its 25th reunion this year, goes the distinction of having advertised for a lost man and then having sent a copy of the ad to the "lost" person...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 1913 Class Secretary, Looking for 'Lost' Man Sends Ad to His Home | 1/4/1938 | See Source »

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