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Word: quaveringly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...lively story and a few well-directed scenes in which Dorothy Jordan blubbers in affecting treble. Roadhouse Murder is passable melodrama. Most obvious of its flaws would have been corrected had Director J. Walter Ruben persuaded Eric Linden to deliver a few of his lines without a pathetic quaver...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: May 9, 1932 | 5/9/1932 | See Source »

...derbies cocked proudly, rowed through the whole fleet to the plaudits of all (as one spectator was heard to remark: ". . . and they could even row!")? Sir, the old days may have gone, the ancient heroes may have yielded their pedestals to upstarts, but one voice, so long as a quaver still remains, will be raised to defend the just glories of the Lowell Gentlemen and their honored Coach. Sincerely yours, James B. Gregg...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Long Live That Quaver | 3/11/1932 | See Source »

...Bowman, Ga., Mr. & Mrs. John R. Ginn named their sixteenth child Quaver Ginn. Other Ginn children: Brodie, Corbin, Dorcas, Elmira, Fezzan, Gregor, Hassie, Ithmar, Jessie, Kester, Lisbon, Manson, Nelson, Ornice, Pascal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Aug. 31, 1931 | 8/31/1931 | See Source »

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