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Word: roome (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...entering a house, or a room in a house whether there are ladies present or not, retain their hats on their heads? For many years past all American films have shewn men, and particularly police men and detectives, entering houses rather unceremoniously wearing their hats and smoking cigars or cigarettes. Mostly the former...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Aug. 22, 1938 | 8/22/1938 | See Source »

...here have always accepted that as the usual USA custom until last night when we saw a film in which the detectives removed their hats when a lady came in the room ! We didn't believe that it was an American film then, thinking that it must be English, but were assured by an American present that gentlemen in America do remove their hats...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Aug. 22, 1938 | 8/22/1938 | See Source »

When the Lutine bell, hung at the entrance to Lloyd's underwriting room in Leadenhall Street, London, rings once, it signifies bad news for ship brokers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: Sunken Treasure | 8/15/1938 | See Source »

...vegetables for his own table, selling the surplus. When he planned a quiet cottage on Nob Hill, his fun-loving wife, who greatly admired the romantic novels of Ouida, took over the planning of it, turned it into a huge mass of towers, gables, and steeples, with a dining room to seat 60 guests, a bedroom inlaid with ivory, ebony and semiprecious stones. Hopkins died before it was finished. Leaning on his hoe, he used to stare at it skeptically and ask reporters if they thought it would pay dividends...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: California Quartet | 8/15/1938 | See Source »

...particular protégé of Bismarck and Wilhelm I. The Franco-Prussian War advertised his products and the Krupp firm became the greatest manufacturer of armaments in the world. Alfred Krupp retired to his castle in the Ruhr Valley in quivering hypochondria, went to bed in a room overlooking the stables, for he was always stimulated by the smell of horses. His son Fritz, while the German Navy grew like a house afire and the family firm got most of the armor plate orders, went to Capri, founded a mock religious order with gold insignia in the form...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Mighty Family | 8/15/1938 | See Source »

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