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Word: personalize (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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James A. Farley, sunning himself on Florida's beaches, promptly gave up heliotherapy and headed for Washington. Harold Ickes, looking most uncomfortable, paid a prolonged call at the White House. Afterward he announced to the Press: "There has been no investigation made of Farley as a person. . . . PWA reserves a right to investigate any project financed with its funds. Transactions involving [Farley's] firms may have been investigated. ... If they have, the findings will be turned over to the Senate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: Political Feud | 2/25/1935 | See Source »

...According to Columnist 0. 0. Mclntyre, a drunk once refused to believe that the person with whom he was scuffling was Fisticuffer McCoy. Knocked to the floor, he looked up, said, "It's the real McCoy." Hence, the phrase...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Feb. 25, 1935 | 2/25/1935 | See Source »

...Manhattan house which she has not left for 20 years, she learns with dismay that her nephew (Ricardo Cortez) loves an actress (Virginia Bruce). Even greater is this grande dame's chagrin when it appears that both nephew and actress are suspected of killing a night-club person. Mobilizing vast resources of wit, charm, and coolheadedness, Miss Collier leaves her house in her electric motor car, competently brings the niggling little mystery to its proper conclusion. A minor mystery to cinemagoers is the nature of the locale of a rough-&-tumble which winds up the picture. Unexplained...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Cinema, Feb. 25, 1935 | 2/25/1935 | See Source »

...Application for slips must be made in person Slips are non-transferable and must be returned. They may be obtained for one week in advance...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FRESHMAN MEAL PLAN ADOPTED BY MASTERS | 2/19/1935 | See Source »

...feature, "Devil Dogs of the Air," the Hon. Jimmy Cagney and Mr. Pat O'Brien, supported by Margaret Lindsay and Frank McHugh, go together as smoothly as a hand and its glove, and as entertainingly as a fat man on a banana peel; while Polly Moran, in person, scintillatingly fresh from Hollywood, shouts and jests her merry way from behind the spotlights right into the very hair of her listeners...

Author: By W.r.a. Jr., | Title: The Crimson Playgoer | 2/18/1935 | See Source »

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