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Word: seene (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...have known them the past ten years, seen them work, heard them talk. They, perhaps more than any other small group, have a most definite set of characteristics...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Aug. 30, 1937 | 8/30/1937 | See Source »

...stuff, tawdry stuff;" when West Virginia's Rush Dew Holt had called him the ally of "bosses and corruptionists" and when Senator Wheeler, shaking a long lean finger at his enemy, had croaked: "Lay on Macduff and damned be he that first cries Hold, Enough," the Senate had seen a very bitter scene of personal animosity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: Last Words | 8/30/1937 | See Source »

...formed Contemporary Historians, Inc., decided to send their own experts to Spain. There Dutch Director Joris Ivens and Author Hemingway, who followed him, spent several months on various fronts, two weeks in the village of Fuentidueña, 60 kilometers from Madrid. This week the film they made, previously seen by a number of sympathetic groups in its formative stages (TIME, June 21), will be generally released for the first time in Manhattan. Long awaited, it was conceded by preview audiences to be well worth waiting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Aug. 23, 1937 | 8/23/1937 | See Source »

...Tecumseh Okla., the State Training (reform) School for Girls last month gave for 38 honor inmates a dance to which selected young men were invited. During the evening Hercule Cook, 21, a store clerk met and renewed his interest in Evelyn Steel, 17, a friend he had not seen for two years. Last week in the honor cottage of the institution, they were married and Mrs. Cook was paroled to Mr. Cook...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Aug. 23, 1937 | 8/23/1937 | See Source »

...philosophized: "I believe the wage earner is more extravagant . . . than the millionaire." As a first step in the direction of improved relations with his radical-minded miners, Dan launched a company union newspaper announcing editorially that "this is greatest era of pap, piffle and poison the world has ever seen." But solid old Meyer, who used to warn his sons that "roasted pigeons do not fly into one's mouth, easily set the record for Guggenheim picturesqueness. Sued at age 77, shortly before his death, by 45-year-old Hanna McNamara for breach of promise, the old man climaxed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Guggles | 8/23/1937 | See Source »

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