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Word: puffs (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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That was in 1935. Already the public reaction against Lawrence the Hero had begun to set in. Already there were those who said his reputation had been a gigantic puff, that it was not worth the newspapers it had been written on. By last week, however, the world and his wife were willing to admit that Lawrence was what is known as a Great...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: I.E. | 3/20/1939 | See Source »

With a last puff the Senate passed the air bill, amended it to up total planes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: Huffs, Bluffs & Handcuffs | 3/13/1939 | See Source »

Eighteen assorted British bigwigs, men like Montagu Norman, John Masefield, Lord Derby last week sent a cream-puff plea to Adolf Hitler to keep the peace of Europe, just as Handsome Adolf was about to say what he was going to do to Europe next...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Cream-Puff Plea | 2/6/1939 | See Source »

There was no sound. None from the puff that switched a cloud of frost against the panes. The innumerable snow moths spread themselves on the pane in rhythmic silence, dissolving, vanishing. Their motions were real quiet, against a background of silence. It was real quiet because their collisions with the glass should have broken the stillness; instead, the absence of a sound where there should have been one made a crevice in the night, transforming it into a riot of noise by contrast. Reflected in the glass he could see the flames in the fireplace lick across the wood, hushing...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Vagabond | 2/3/1939 | See Source »

...make-up department has cleverly turned out a George Jean Nathan, an Alexander Woolcott, and an Orson Welles, these gentlemen's attempts at acting are deplorable, even when allowances are made for first-night stage-fright. Only the skill of John W. Sever '40, as Maxwell Anderson alias Mr. Puff, and the charm of Dorothe Larson of the Bishop Lec Dramatic School induce the audience to return to their seats after the intermission...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CRIMSON PLAYGOER | 12/16/1938 | See Source »

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