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Word: rockers (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Usage:

...poesy reader, prattler extraordinary. When Ted Malone comes visiting, the average U. S. woman-of-the-house finds herself as politely helpless as when the gadabout from down the street calls. "May I come in?" asks Ted. "I see you are alone. . . . Now I'll just take this rocker here by the radio and chat awhile. . . . What lovely new curtains. . . . Well...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Pilgrim | 10/30/1939 | See Source »

Winthrop outplayed the Funsters all through the encounter, and was scored on only when Ed Hindle, Kicker, forget that he backed up in using his rocker kick and stepped over the back of the end zone while punting...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Winthrop Catapults into First; Bellboys Nose Out Leverett 2-0 | 10/21/1939 | See Source »

...Robinson grew red and angry. A few moments later his heart began to flutter and pain ran through his chest. He went out on the terrace to sit in a rocker until he felt better. He decided to take a day of rest. He held a conference with Senator Alben Barkley of Kentucky and other lieutenants who were leading his Court fight, then returned home although he could not well be spared from the fight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: End of Strife | 7/26/1937 | See Source »

...Longmont, Colo., planted in a rocker on her father-in-law's front lawn, Mrs. Genevieve Johnson, 26, went into the second week of her Sit-Down to force her estranged husband to pay the $6.70-per-week separate maintenance awarded her by a court...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: Strikes & Settlements | 5/10/1937 | See Source »

...cake. It is all very hazy; there were a thousand eyes, and two red ears, a sharp grunt from the possessor of an abused bunion, and then the muffled howl of some lonely offstage Phantom. The Vagabond had faint reminiscences of a woman called Eliza, and he persevered. A rocker creaked, but the jaded cushion was anctuary. And the Vagabond answered a fool who wrote "Wouldst thou eat thy cake and have it?"--with a loud gulp...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Student Vagabond | 12/13/1932 | See Source »

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