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Word: speak (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Speak in Arabic only; don't answer anyone who talks to you in any language other than Arabic; and don't buy anything from a shopkeeper whose sign is not in Arabic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: EGYPT: Royal Fascist? | 1/10/1938 | See Source »

...lovers of photography as an important art, Steichen's achievement, measured against his gifts and his opportunities, was not quite enough either. When Steichen told old Photographer Alfred Stieglitz that he was getting out of business, the impresario of "An American Place" was so pleased he could scarcely speak...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Career, Camera, Corn | 1/10/1938 | See Source »

Whether all this indicates monopoly in newsprint, only Homer Cummings knows. Solid, reticent Mr. Whitcomb, though he may not want to speak for Canada, says flatly: "There is no monopoly among U. S. newsprint manufacturers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Publishers' Pains | 1/10/1938 | See Source »

...story is that of a great young Shaksperian actor who regains his self-respect by acting like a beast in a household not used to people who speak Elizabethan words over a kippered herring. Satirizing himself with grace, Mr. Howard tries hard to make a crazy Ophelia fall out of love with him, so that she will fall back in love with her fiance. At the same time Mr. Howard is pressed to keep the love of "Joyce," while Eric Blore packs and repacks bags, makes bird noises, and sticks his tongue out at a little girl who knows every...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: EXAM TROUBLES | 1/7/1938 | See Source »

Puritans will hear Lawrence Win-ship, editor of the Boston Globe, speak on "Qualities an Editor Looks for in a New Reporter" in the Senior Common Room Monday night at 7:30 o'clock...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: News from the Houses | 1/5/1938 | See Source »

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