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Word: showering (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...dancing in the streets. Thursday night's specialty this year was to be a tennis match between Ellsworth Vines and Fred Perry at the Jefferson County Armory. Friday night festivities were the Derby Eve Ball, an all-star wrestling program, and the annual reunion banquet & mint-julep shower of Kentucky Colonels. Saturday is the Derby...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: 63rd Derby | 5/10/1937 | See Source »

...clock the Department's newest and shiniest ladder truck was blocking half of Quincy Street behind the Fire House, and a shower of spray fell from the hose at the top of the raised ladder...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FIREMEN TURN HOSE ON FIRE HOUSE FOR ANNUAL CLEANING | 5/3/1937 | See Source »

...come to Genova. Genova is a city of some 650,00 inhabitants, one night club, a Lido with American shower baths, Paganini's violin, 666 places where Columbus slept, an impressive monument to Cristoforo Colombo and the one and only place where he was born. This latter is a small two story stone house with bars over the windows, a noble inscription saying whose house it was and in much bigger letters a warning saying that anyone posting bills here will be prosecuted...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE OXFORD LETTER | 4/23/1937 | See Source »

...members of the London County Council [aldermen] with the stripper proving the most-dressed representative of her clan ever seen. . . . "C. B. Cochrane opened his new Trocadero cabaret revue the same night. Entitled 'Eve in the Park,' show features a nude girl enclosed in a huge glass shower-bath, stepping out and dressing from skin to outer garments. Artistic and alluring, the twist went over nicely...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Stripping & Unstripping | 4/19/1937 | See Source »

...week opened the bag of information about Spain which his espionage service keeps replenishing daily, shook out through his press spokesman Editor Virginio Gayda of Giornale d'ltalia whole pages of minute particulars of Soviet, French and other "neutral" aid to the Spanish Leftists. So rich was this shower of charges in detail that only the chiefs of other espionage services were in a position to estimate its exactness. Laymen and journalists noted that Italy's charges amount to saying that Socialist Premier Blum, while prating of neutrality, has been winking at wholesale smugglery of munitions and warplanes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SPAIN: Business & Blood | 4/19/1937 | See Source »

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