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Word: pleasingness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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No U. S. city has ever suffered the simultaneous ministrations of Jimmy Walker and Big Bill Thompson. Author Sayre's pleasing idea is to imagine a city that did. Mayor of Greater Malta, a municipality strongly resembling Greater New York, is John Norris ("Jolly John") Holtsapple, who is first...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Non-Parteesian | 3/20/1933 | See Source »

Lately Hecker H-O Co. engaged Erwin, Wasey to revive Force. Vice President Owen Burtch Winters of the agency thought it would be good publicity to revive also Sunny Jim and Minny. Although it was known that Miss Hanff married Raymond Fuller Ayers, children's page editor of the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: Minny & Jim | 3/13/1933 | See Source »

Lost in the maze of buildings which lie between the historic Yard and the tortuous Charles, its gold tower dwarfed by the belling pinnacle of Lowell House, is Adams House, unit of the House Plan which combines the relies of the Gold Coast age with the latest products of the...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE HOUSES IN OPERATION | 3/10/1933 | See Source »

Author Halper is not impatient. Neither, it appears, are his publishers. Four years ago he sent The Viking Press a novel. The editors ''read it with interest," turned it down. Year later his literary agent brought them a second novel. The editors argued over it, disagreed, finally decided...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Manhattan Newsreel | 3/6/1933 | See Source »

His articles that appeared in London told of the situation in pre-Revolutionary Russia and described the tactics of Kerensky who was his friend and intimate. These caught the eye of Lloyd George, then Prime Minister. Although appalled with the youth of Lockhart, the head of the British government decided...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE CRIMSON BOOKSHELF | 2/11/1933 | See Source »

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