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Word: processional (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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"Manhattan Parade" is little more than a vehicle for an endless procession of hilarious incidents, featuring Winnie Lightner, Paramount personality girl, less about forty pounds of her former charms, as the high powered executive of a costume company.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CRIMSON PLAYGOER | 3/15/1932 | See Source »

Century's principal witnesses came in a procession. They were Arizona farmers, merchants, professional men. They wanted to see Century get its certificate, they said, because better service was promised by competition than by monopoly, because, with aviation becoming so important, anyone should have as many airlines as possible...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Aeronautics: Right of Airway | 3/14/1932 | See Source »

The film that brings up the rear in a procession of type pictures is sure to be at a disadvantage, whether it be of the gangster, or convict genre. When all the cards have been played, there is little novelty to be gained by reshuffling. Only rarely can a film...

Author: By G. G. R., | Title: The Crimson Playgoer | 3/5/1932 | See Source »

Over the horizon from California in the long swell of the Pacific rocked the clock-faced fighting tops of nine battleships of the Battle Force (Pennsylvania, California, New York, Oklahoma, Nevada, Tennessee, Colorado, Maryland, West Vir-ginia). Their radios were ominously silent and they did not come alone. Trailing in...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARMY & NAVY: Grand Joint Exercise No. 4 | 2/15/1932 | See Source »

Another suffer from the ban is the merry wag who used to stand in line in order to pass a jest with the president. Mr. Hoover's term has not been prolific of this form of humor, but in the legendary days of prosperity, the impassive figure of Mr. Coolidge...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "MR. HOOVER, I BELIEVE?" | 2/11/1932 | See Source »

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