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Word: showering (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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General. Behind General Marshall's visit was a story of German intrigue and U. S. counter-intrigue. Führer Hitler had invited General Pedro Aurelio Goes Monteiro, Brazilian Chief of Staff, to visit Berlin. The Führer was prepared to shower the General with compliments, among them the honor of marching down Unter den Linden at the head of a specially picked regiment of Nazi troops...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BRAZIL: Visitors | 5/22/1939 | See Source »

Manhattanites will be given a chance to shower ticker tape and torn-up telephone books on Their Majesties...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Royal Route | 5/1/1939 | See Source »

...most. When the director said he wanted a gasoline water pump, Mr. Hayden promptly made his wish come true by fishing out $75 in cash. Recently, he walked into the lavatory of the Burroughs Newsboy Home in Boston, emerged to announce that he would give the institution money for shower baths and new toilets...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: For Nobler Men | 3/27/1939 | See Source »

Squeezed into a small hall in the huge Park Square Building off Arlington Street, the brand new Telepix theatre presents a shower of short features to the public in ultra-modern and ultra-comfortable surroundings. Thus far, however, the "rocking chair comfort" and the sterilized air with ultra-violet ray generators are greater attractions than the uneven assortment of newsreels, travelogues and cartoons...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Moviegoer | 3/20/1939 | See Source »

With the Wind), Farrar & Rinehart pulled the lever again last week with another whopper, The Tree of Liberty (985 pages to 1,224 for Anthony Adverse). The book and the law of averages being what they are, no jackpot is likely to shower down. The Tree of Liberty, Elizabeth Page's first novel, took five years to write, will not take so long to read. Its breeziness is astounding, in view of the hot and heavy research the author did for it (32 huge collections of national, state, private records and letters, files of 26 periodicals, 183 biographies, histories...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Long Chance | 2/27/1939 | See Source »

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