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Word: sassing (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Inspector Hornleigh (Twentieth Century-Fox), another Buy-British reprint from the Scotland Yard files, involves three murders and the theft of the British budget from the Chancellor of the Exchequer. Not a patch on Scotland Yardman Ralph Richardson for verve and sass (see above), grey, efficient Cinemactor Gordon Harker is nevertheless painstaking proof that it takes all sorts of cinemen to man the Yard...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Also Showing | 6/26/1939 | See Source »

Bexraises its Ugly Heade from Davenport to Stadium today but it'll take more than that Scott of Sass to make us Fink Chicago is Maurovich Wichman that Wasem of the other teams...

Author: By H. FLUNG Huey occ, | Title: HOWARD PICK THE WINDY CITY WHEN HUEY STICKS WITH REES | 11/5/1938 | See Source »

...giant, hard-driving Yankee, who punches his Portygee workers in the nose, terrorizes even the town banker. But when the hero, a skinny, down-&-out college graduate, goes to work in the factory, terrible Symmes has no chance. Scrawny Keith Bain simply parries his bullying with cool, ironical sass. When Symmes hesitates and fumes about giving Bain five cents more an hour, the puny David says: "Come on, Symmes, make up your mind. . . ." This defiance works so well, in fact, that Symmes invites him to board at his home...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Wishful Worker | 10/17/1938 | See Source »

...CAROLINA RICE PLANTATION OF THE FIFTIES-Herbert Ravenel Sass-Morrow...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Southern Memorial | 12/7/1936 | See Source »

...Carolina Rice Plantation of the Fifties celebrates the glories of this vanished life with 30 water color paintings by Alice Ravenel Huger Smith, a 52-page discussion of the Rice Coast by Dr. Herbert Ravenel Sass, a 38-page memoir of boyhood on a rice plantation by the late Daniel Elliott Huger Smith. The result is a handsome gift book in which Alice Huger Smith's paintings of lagoons, salt creeks, rice fields in winter, threshing and harvesting scenes, easily carry off all honors. Dr. Sass's discussion is about evenly divided between interesting facts on the Rice...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Southern Memorial | 12/7/1936 | See Source »

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