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Word: scalps (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Also included of the rolls, according to the reports which they gave on the questionnaire, are a Communist organizer, a writer of "drugstore classics," a laborer, a policeman, a scalp treatment specialist, a milk-bottle-packager, a sand and gravel expert, a wood preserver, a dog caterer, an ex-Foreign Legionnaire, and 17 unemployed, one of whom described himself as "looking for work; hoping for relief...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FIRST CLASS AFTER DEPRESSION PUBLISHES STORY OF DECADE | 6/5/1940 | See Source »

WHILE SHE SLEEPS-Ethel Lina White -Harper ($2). Until she won the Irish Sweeps and bought three houses, the luck of Miss Loveapple was phenomenal. Thereafter she suffered the most appalling terrors and misadventures. A scalp-dewer if ever there...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Murders in May | 6/3/1940 | See Source »

...year-old Governor across a chair, smashing it, dropped astride him, landing furious rights and lefts in his face. The embattled editor was hauled off, and trumpeting that it was "a cowardly attempt to assassinate me from the rear," was rushed to the hospital for scalp stitches. The Governor was put to bed at the Executive Mansion a block away...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Pizen Slinger | 5/13/1940 | See Source »

Summoned by a neighbor, Los Angeles police came. Daphne and Deborah, still faintly breathing, were rushed to the hospital, where they died from fractured skulls. Chloe herself had a slight scalp wound which had to be treated. Her head swathed in a bandage, blue eyes wide and unblinking, she told her story...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Horror Story | 4/15/1940 | See Source »

...other men have received the same sentence. But to pull a rarely known charge of passport evasion out of the hat is a far more serious matter. It proves that Browder was not treated like any other citizen, that the government was using every trick and cunning to scalp the big Red Chief...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: RED CHIEF OFF THE WAR PATH | 1/26/1940 | See Source »

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