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Word: pots (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Since Irene Castle bobbed her hair in 1913, since U. S. women invaded barber shops and the permanent wave went into mass production, hairdressing has been a tea-pot-stormy industry...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WOMEN: Sneers for Snoods | 9/25/1939 | See Source »

...Potocki: pot-otski...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World War: Grey Friday | 9/11/1939 | See Source »

...capitalization of their transit setup, beat down utility rates, cut the tax rate 5?, was credited with bringing the 1936 Democratic convention to Philadelphia. But since January 1 sick Sam Wilson had spent precisely ten minutes at City Hall, let the city go to pot. Fortnight ago, with his overdue airport only half-finished, sewers left broken and exposed, some suburbs unpoliced and city water too bad for finicky citizens to drink, Mayor Wilson signed the $112,000,000 budget seven and one-half months after it was due, tearfully handed in his resignation. It was, explained he shakily...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Aug. 28, 1939 | 8/28/1939 | See Source »

...Godfrey nor any of the variants of it since mimeographed in Hollywood, Fifth Avenue Girl may well seem one of the best pictures of the year. Good shot: Mrs. Borden, an apron over her sequins, wooing her husband by industriously scenting the Borden mansion with a succulent pot of Irish stew...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Aug. 28, 1939 | 8/28/1939 | See Source »

...trouble will read that they must be patient. Husbands in woman scrapes will read that they must not cheat. But fluttery, did-I-do-wrong girls will be happy to learn Author Dix's basic philosophy, that Balzac long ago stated more picturesquely: "No matter how black the pot may be, it can always find a lid." A young girl's fancies, suggests Author Dix, should be pretty well taken up with locating that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Did I Do Wrong? | 8/14/1939 | See Source »

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