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Word: roome (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...British Government, although continuing to insist that Viscount Runciman arrived in Prague last week as a "purely private person," engaged a 15-room suite for him at the Alcron Hotel-long the favorite resort of Sudeten German politicians-and proceeded to pay all the bills...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CZECHOSLOVAKIA: Pax Runciman | 8/15/1938 | See Source »

...afternoon three weeks ago, James Smith Ferebee breezed into the club's locker room, announced that he had just played 90 holes. "Could have gone 144," he added. This irked fat Fred Tuerk, who offered to bet him $2 that he couldn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Stroke a Minute | 8/15/1938 | See Source »

...three suicides a day is among the most unpleasant of routine assignments. Last week, however, when John William Warde decided to commit suicide in his own good time (see p. 24), reporters were fascinated, newspaper offices took on the kind of tension common in the cinema city room, rare in fact...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Slow Suicide | 8/8/1938 | See Source »

...morning last week, a tall, austere man sat at his desk in the open city room of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, scribbling with a thick blue pencil. Few minutes later his memo was posted on the bulletin board. It read...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: Sealed Envelope | 8/8/1938 | See Source »

...June, with a new flock of birds added to a cast which already included such rarities as Lionel Barrymore, James Stewart, Jean Arthur, Edward Arnold, Donald Meek, Spring Byington and Mischa Auer, shooting on the picture ended and 329,000 feet of film were sent to the cutting room. A finished feature picture contains 8,000. By last week, You Can't Take It With You was only about twice that size and almost in shape for its first previews. Cost of the picture so far is about ten times what Columbia paid for the story, but Producer Harry...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Columbia's Gem | 8/8/1938 | See Source »

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