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Word: rabid (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...days when Benito Mussolini was a rabid, stump-speaking young Socialist, he used to demand free lunches for Italian school children at the expense of the State. Last week by Fascist decree school lunches were made compulsory throughout Italy, but not at the expense of the State. Rich moppets will be charged enough to pay for their lunches and those of poor moppets as well. Rich or poor, every Italian school child will be required, before eating school lunch, to say this grace...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: For Richer, For Poorer | 1/31/1938 | See Source »

...protect men from rabid dogs, the Pasadena, Calif, board of city directors last week passed an ordinance decreeing that any dog owner seen on the streets with a dog would be fined $500 or jailed six months. Instanter Pasadena dog owners complained, first among them one of the city's three blind men with Seeing Eye dogs. The ordinance was quickly amended to permit leashed dogs on the streets...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Animals: Men & Dogs | 1/31/1938 | See Source »

...only Jewish, but Russian and Hungarian language papers were suppressed in Rumania last week, but the only anti-Semitic decree of the week was one published by Minister of Public Works George Cuza, son of the even more rabid Minister without Portfolio Alexander Cuza. This will make it an offense for Jews to employ non-Jewish female servants under 40 years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUMANIA: Not Rabid | 1/17/1938 | See Source »

...years, enthusiasts are looking forward to excellent skiing at all New England sport centers. In contrast to last year's conditions which were universally terrible, reports coming in from the mountains this year give promise of enough skiing for the rest of the year to satisfy even the most rabid enthusiasts...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: New England Ski Conditions Are Fine | 1/7/1938 | See Source »

...strains of his favorite march, the Badenweiler, minced his way to the speaker's stand through a lane of Storm Troopers as wave upon wave of throaty cheers thundered down the long hall. As is traditional, apple-cheeked Rudolf Hess, deputy leader, opened the Congress; Julius Streicher, rabid Jew hater, welcomed the Führer and the party members to Nurnberg, Streicher's own stamping ground. And as is traditional, Hitler did not address the first session, instead sat messiah-like on the haupttribüne while rasping-voiced Adolf Wagner, Munich Nazi leader, read the Fuhrer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: A Million Heils | 9/20/1937 | See Source »

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