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Word: plums (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...bragh days of the Irish Literary Renaissance were as exciting as plum cake -full of such plums as Yeats, A. E., Joyce, J. M. Synge. For some time now the cake has been stale and almost plumless. Last week, however, Irish-hungry readers might bite into two fairly fruity bits...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Late Plums | 2/27/1939 | See Source »

Hitler-"Ah, my friend, if you had seen me at Berchtesgaden. I took him by the lapels. I shook him like a plum tree. I spoke coldly of destroying London and Paris...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: More Munich? | 1/9/1939 | See Source »

Last week, without a splurge of advertising (not in character), the store began selling out its $287,000 stock-on-hand at 20% reduction. Mr. Charles thought three weeks would clear the shelves; $7,000 worth of recently-ordered plum pudding worries him not at all. He has a customer for the name, the goodwill, the futures contracts, the trademark and the trucks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TRADE: Bon Voyage | 12/5/1938 | See Source »

...miles long. Among the hill people of Greenup-great hunters, fighters, Baptists and Democrats from way back- young Jesse Stuart grew up. He lived at the head of W-Hollow, fished in Little Sandy, began to write poetry before he was out of school. "Them Stuart youngins is plum fools." said Neighbor John Hackless. "If them was youngins of mine, I'd whip their tails with a hickory...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Greenup Poet | 11/7/1938 | See Source »

...often enough, but there have been a few spills. There was Betsy, the flop they did for Ziegfeld. "Ziegfeld should have been a movie producer. He didn't know the first thing about music, yet he constantly butted in on the scores." Ten Cents a Dance, the biggest plum they got out of another Ziegfeld show, Simple Simon, they "practically slipped in over Ziegfeld's head...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: The Boys From Columbia | 9/26/1938 | See Source »

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