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Word: sobbed (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Reading what he has to tell about himself, students of contemporary phenomena and throbbers over the owner of "The Voice with a Sob in It" will be interested in such Rudy Vallee views of Rudy Vallee as the following...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Swiss Bass | 3/24/1930 | See Source »

...article on telephone girls Mainichi points out that those new at their jobs are usually so sensitive that, when rebuked by an irate subscriber or cursed by a drunken one, they often put their dark little heads down on their switchboards and sob as though their hearts would break. Meanwhile hundreds of subscribers work themselves into a frenzy as they get no response to their jiggle or "moshi-moshi" signal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JAPAN: Return to Normal | 3/17/1930 | See Source »

...facts related to him by the client and gather the elements of proof into an honored sequence, so that when the trial begins it can move speedily to a decision. There must be no emotional pleading, no such disgrace to Justice as what the American's call 'sob stuff...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: 'Hasten, Justice! | 1/13/1930 | See Source »

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