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Word: put (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Chosen for a beginning were 35 songs of the Civil War period (1861-65). Last week the two Civil War albums and a third containing songs of New York State were put on sale...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Songs of the U. S. | 5/22/1939 | See Source »

...wear. . . . Today you see millions of women, all over America, slop-slopping along the streets with not only their toes out, but their heels out too. ... I won't be a bit surprised if, some day, they just walk right out on you and shellac their soles and put bells on their toes and say, 'To hell with shoes!!' . . . All this makes me very...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Saddened Editor | 5/22/1939 | See Source »

...scout saw him in Journey's End at Pomona College, which graduated him in 1933. A matinee idol and shopgirls' delight from the beginning, he got off on the wrong foot when critics dubbed him "Beautiful" Robert Taylor. To counteract this tendency, his studio, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, put him in one two-fisted role after another, swaddled him in he-man publicity. One day last week, Spangler Arlington Brugh took matters into his own hands...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Heartbreaker | 5/22/1939 | See Source »

Last week, while 120 of New York's bookies gloomily set up their stools for the opening of what may be their last Belmont Park meeting, the measure met its crucial test, passed the State Senate a second time-in spite of an alleged $100,000 greasing fund put up by bookmakers. Now expected to be passed by the Assembly and approved at the polls next November, pari-mutuels may appear at New York tracks next spring, and an extra $5,000,000 to $10,000,000 revenue is counted on for the State...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: $10,000,000 Revenue | 5/22/1939 | See Source »

Clifford Oral McCreedy of Aledo, Ill, is a careful country doctor. Last week he paid a call, lanced an abscess for a patient and, when he was through, took a proper precaution. He did not put the infected scalpel with the sterilized instruments in his bag. He wrapped it in a piece of paper and put it in his pocket. Then careful Dr. McCreedy went home and, opening his front door, looked down into the laughing face of his 19-month-old daughter, Nancy Irene. He swung her up and clasped her in his arms. That was a fatal move...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Doctor's Tragedy | 5/22/1939 | See Source »

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