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Word: punks (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...feel hit. Next day there was a great rubbing of sore heads on Capitol Hill. Senators charged the picture lowered the Senate's dignity. Three Senators (who declined to be quoted) upheld Senatorial dignity with these pungent comments on the film: "Not all Senators are sons of bitches." "Punk!" "It stinks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Mr. Smith Riles Washington | 10/30/1939 | See Source »

...snork is Uncle Don. When he was a boy (Howard Rice, son of a horseshoe nail salesman), his pals in St. Joseph, Mich, called him "Punk." Now he is a fattish, fiftyish, rheumy-eyed, flashy-dressing showman. As a kid, he learned enough piano chords by ear to get some local esteem as a musician. Because he found he could play the piano standing on his head, he became Don Carney, the Trick Pianist of vaudeville. He got into radio 14 years ago. One day, on a half-hour's notice, he was assigned to do a children...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Snork, Punk | 10/9/1939 | See Source »

...fellow burned one church or synagogue he'd likely be called a punk, among other things. Why should the burning of many such places make him be considered for the Man of the Year? If a punk, through brute force, made an old Jew scrub a street, he'd be called anything but Man of the Year, eh? Would he be any different because he'd done so to many...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jan. 2, 1939 | 1/2/1939 | See Source »

Thither from Chicago went Dr. Tenerowicz in 1923, because he heard it was a "promising city" where thousands of Poles "needed guidance." Dr. Ten was a one-time breaker-boy from the coal mines of Punxsutawney, Pa. (pronounced Punk-soo-tawney). He had studied medicine at Loyola University, served in the Army Medical Corps. Eloquent and energetic, combining politics with doctoring like Michigan's late Royal S. Copeland, who became Senator from New York, Dr. Ten was only five years in becoming Hamtramck's mayor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICAL NOTES: Hellzapoppin | 11/28/1938 | See Source »

...Saint in New York (RKO Radio) is the first cinemogrification of an airy young crime-fiction character, Simon Templar, alias "The Saint." The Saint (Louis Hayward) invades Manhattan, flushes and exterminates a racketeer mob from punk to big shot, with invaluable fingerwork by a darkling moll (Kay Sutton...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Also Showing | 6/6/1938 | See Source »

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