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Word: roget (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...convivial, emaciated Presidential Secretary Marvin ("Mac") McIntyre, who usually runs news headquarters ashore when the President goes to sea without the press. Detailed to take "Mac's" place in Miami was Assistant Secretary Bill Hassett, the quiet, dependable oldtime AP man whom Franklin Roosevelt calls "My Bartlett, my Roget, my Buckle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Vigilant Fisherman | 2/27/1939 | See Source »

...John Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, Peter Roget's Thesaurus of English Words & Phrases, Henry Thomas Buckle's History of Civilization are three indispensable aids to erudite orators...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Vigilant Fisherman | 2/27/1939 | See Source »

...have to have a lot of special reporters for the various sports, and there are 24 men on this board. There is one lady employed who does nothing but take care of the cross word puzzles, and she is better than Roget's Treasury of Words as a reference book...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Twenty Million Dollars Spent Gathering News Yearly For N.Y. Herald - Tribune, Says Forrest | 3/2/1934 | See Source »

...something of the flatness of circus lemonade. There are also the over-fecund keys of typewriter and linotype, where flying fingers run riot in a manner unknown to the plodding scribe and compositor of an earlier day. Finally, there are the advertisers, who distill the strongest potations from Mr. Roget's Thesaurus to set off the merits of each new whisk-broom...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: VERBAL INFLATION | 11/20/1931 | See Source »

...currently common, uncomplimentary terms for Jew, apparently too modern for Roget's are: hebe (collegiate and journalese), kike (general). Cleveland Jews call Cleveland Heights, where many co-religionists reside, "Kike's Peak...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Opprobriousness Deleted | 9/22/1930 | See Source »

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