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Word: seltzers (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Like its journalistic forbear. Ballyhoo concentrates on kidding advertisements. When Comedian Howard is chief concentrator, it is funny. There are few good tunes (one of them: "While We Have Bromo Seltzer in Our Love Nest") to make Ballyhoo another Band Wagon, which it tries hard...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Sep. 19, 1932 | 9/19/1932 | See Source »

...American Bar" on the Rue Fontaine, Paris. Here may be seen a beauteous cinemactress flirting coyly with a fun-loving British peer over the telephones which hospitable Joe Zelli placed on every table to facilitate social intercourse; or, on rare occasions, a tycoon-sired U. S. collegian squirting seltzer-water at beturbanned Indian moguls.* William Bateman ("Tinplate") Leeds provided a fine funeral complete with a satin-lined casket at Scarsdale, N. Y., for Pal, a German shepherd dog killed in a dog fight. Hearst's Boston American quoted friends of youthful James A. ("Bud") Stillman Jr., son of Banker...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Business & Finance, Feb. 22, 1932 | 2/22/1932 | See Source »

...farce in which Chester Morris, as a scatter-brained aviator, jokes with, flies with, drinks with, wrestles with and finally suggests matrimony with Billie Dove, as a Parisian actress, whose costume armor is heard clanking to the floor at the end of the picture. Typical shot: Chester Morris squirting seltzer at Billie Dove when she slaps him for an improper proposal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Feb. 1, 1932 | 2/1/1932 | See Source »

...best. So it is with great pleasure that he goes today at 12 to Emerson D to hear Professor Lowes talk on Wordsworth, the precursor of the Romanticists. Wordsworth himself, the Vagabond firmly believes, only wrote five poems that can be read without the aid of a bromo-seltzer, but he was the primary influence in one of the greatest literary periods the modern world has ever known...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Student Vagabond | 10/26/1931 | See Source »

...establishments, the Apollo and Pompeii, were undisturbed. Managers, customers, girls and waiters went out to battle. Beer bottles crashed through the windows. Heavy saucers hummed through the air. An Andalusian blonde was felled by one on her ear. One of the attacking Amazons had her hip gashed by a seltzer bottle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SPAIN: Syndicato v. Telefonica | 7/20/1931 | See Source »

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