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Word: rollered (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Harlem on the Prairie (Associated Features) is billed as "the first all-Negro musical Western." It brings to life a cow-country as fabulous as the vision of some Holy Roller prophet. In this apocalyptic land everybody-the prospectors and stagecoach drivers, the medicine men, outlaws, sheriff, the hero with the silver-plated stock saddle-is a gentleman of color. No attempt is made to explain how so much pigment got all over the open spaces. It is there, palpably, by a whim of the Almighty, indulged with the liberal connivance of one Jed Buell, an independent Hollywood producer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Dec. 13, 1937 | 12/13/1937 | See Source »

...dozen matronly hats, offered them to her as a gift. Valued at $169, all size 23. the assortment included a black felt brimmed model with green, lavender and red bows, a toque with iridescent feathers and odd-angled quills, a visor brimmed type with veil in front, a bumper roller with wraith of veil in the rear. Mrs. Garner refused to open the boxes, refused to accept the hats...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Dec. 6, 1937 | 12/6/1937 | See Source »

...classifies U. S. sects as Pessimistic (Adventists who believe that most of mankind is bad, that Jesus Christ will return to take members of the "True Church" into Heaven); Perfectionist (Methodist and "Holiness" groups which hold that moral perfection should be the goal of Christians); Charismatic (Pentecostal or "Holy Roller" sects whose members consider themselves endowed with special charismata or gifts, such as the gift of speaking in "unknown tongues"); Communistic (the almost-defunct Shakers, the defunct Oneida Community, the still-existing Church Triumphant of Estero. Fla., whose members believe that the world is a hollow ball, with men living...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Legalists & Charismatics | 11/22/1937 | See Source »

...Jayvee's line-up will be: Lussen, l.e., Starbuckle, l.t., Hopgood, l.g., Day, c., Tyler, r.g., Rumely, r.t., Brinkley, r.e., Roller q.b., Macomber, l.h.b., Wooster, r.h.b., and Grahm...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 78 Elis Expected | 11/19/1937 | See Source »

...Bradford Ross, secretary (1924) to the late U. S. Senator John B. Kendrick. From his political connections sprouted his close friendship with Wyoming's present rulers, oil-rich Governor Leslie Andrew Miller and Senator Joseph Christopher O'Mahoney. These three became Wyoming's famed political steam roller...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: Wyoming's M-O-M | 11/15/1937 | See Source »

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