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Word: powders (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...weather forecast for today is increasing cloudiness, followed by snow in the late afternoon and night, with slowly rising temperatures in southern New England. This snow should give a good powder surface so that skiers would not have to navigate on the hard crust caused by the thaw...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Probable Snow Forecast for Today Bids for Good Skiing | 2/21/1936 | See Source »

...Scotch warrior set upon destroying the clan of McLaglen instead of the invading English, is blown up by a keg of powder after having dallied with a shepherdess and field ignominiously from the scions of the hated clan. For this he is condemned by his father, the head of the clan of Glouer, to wander about the ancestral castle until he, Murdoch Glouer the ghost, can tweek the beak of a McLagen and force him to admit that any fifty of his clan can be thrashed with ease by a lone Glouer...

Author: By E. C. B., | Title: The Moviegoer | 2/4/1936 | See Source »

...frivolous young shade whose dour father orders him to haunt Glourie Castle in Scotland as penance for an act of characteristic levity committed during the 18th Century. Packed off to fight the English, young Glourie so far disgraces his station as to be killed while hiding behind a powder keg to avoid being thrashed by members of the rival clan of MacLaggan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Jan. 20, 1936 | 1/20/1936 | See Source »

...General Foods puts out Instant Postum, Post Toasties, JellO, Maxwell House Coffee, Sanka Coffee, Grape-Nuts, Log Cabin Syrup, Swans Down Cake Flour. Minute Tapioca, Calumet Baking Powder, Baker's Chocolate. *Mrs. Hutton's daughter Eleanor was thrice married by the time she was 24. First husband was Playwright Preston Sturges (Strictly Dishonorable) with whom she eloped. No. 2 was French Poloist Etienne Marie Robert Gautier. No. 3 is George Curtis Rand, Manhattan agent for Bugatti automobiles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Reshuffle | 12/23/1935 | See Source »

Jean Harlow dedicated the studio's Blonde Room, done in powder-blue; Claudette Colbert the Brunette Room in dusty pink...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Make-Up Man | 12/9/1935 | See Source »

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