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Word: spanks (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...made them realize as never before that the U. S. State Department and people had by no means decided to acquiesce to the New Order in Asia, even if their headlines had recently seemed to have forgotten Asia was there. The U. S. was patently in a mood to spank as well as slap...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JAPAN: Straight from the Mouth | 10/30/1939 | See Source »

...always reserved the sole right to spank its Latin-American neighbors. Since 1933 the U. S., anxious to avoid the stigma of dollar diplomacy, has spared the rod in the interests of President Roosevelt's "Good Neighbor" policy. Meanwhile, the Mexican Government has seized without compensation oil lands, mines, ranches and farms belonging to citizens of the U. S. and foreign countries...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CABINET: Spoiled Neighbor | 8/1/1938 | See Source »

...only Germany's No. 1 composer. As one of the two most eminent composers in the world today (the other is Finland's Jean Sibelius), he is Naziland's No. 1 cultural exhibit. Even though he is a bad boy the Third Reich is loath to spank...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Bad Boy | 7/25/1938 | See Source »

...added fine performances by Akim Tamiroff and Anna May Wong--the music-loving gangster and his "hostess," respectively. But "Love, Honor, and Behave" fails completely to be either an amusing musicale or a sound social drama, succeeding only in convincing a spineless Yale graduate (Wayne Morris) that he should spank his wife (Priscilla Lane...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: * The Moviegoer * | 3/18/1938 | See Source »

...used to spank her children entirely too much, and in spite of all she's written about raising children, her daughter, 20, and youngest son, 14, are ornery as the dickens...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: Son's Retort | 8/30/1937 | See Source »

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