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Word: ridiculouse (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Missouri last week held a Senatorial primary as sizzling as the weather, as stubborn as a Missouri mule, as mixed-up as a mule's parentage. Senator Bennett Champ Clark stuck his reddish nose into it by stumping for Senator Harry S. Truman, elected six years ago by Kansas...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MISSOURI: That Man Again | 8/19/1940 | See Source »

Dink Stover protested (before he was tapped) that Tap Day was "ridiculous rigmarole." Twenty years later Richard Storrs Childs, '32 (now publisher of Modern Age Books), also denounced "the Elks in our midst," shortly afterward accepted election to Keys. In 1933 the entire junior class revolted, stayed stubbornly in...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Skull & Bones | 5/20/1940 | See Source »

Marriage Denied. By Cinemactress Arline Judge, 28, and Cafe Socialite James McKinley Bryant, 31, who announced his marriage to her "somewhere in Kentucky" after the Derby. Protested Mr. Bryant later: "How could I marry her when I'm still married to Mickey Flynn?" Sighed Miss Judge: "It's...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, May 20, 1940 | 5/20/1940 | See Source »

>"Ridiculous . . . utterly stupid," Berlin officials puffed.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WAR & PEACE: A Million for Hitler | 5/13/1940 | See Source »

Some people will go to ridiculous extremes to earn five cents. However, probably no greater number of people ever carried on such an awesome variety of odd, yes, very odd jobs as are in progress here at Vassar for our own Seventy-fifth. Even men are rented for the good...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PRESS | 5/7/1940 | See Source »

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