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Word: star (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Rats" in reverse: star...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: Rats Raided | 8/21/1939 | See Source »

...turntables, a microphone, 10,000 records and two telegraph receiving machines. He gets anywhere from 150 to 250 request telegrams each morning. Most come from Manhattan's metropolitan area, but some regulars click in from far-away Florida and Ohio. Once Walter Winchell, whose favorite selection is Star Dust, sent Stan a 794-word telegram. One mysterious regular, Little Caesar, has sent as many as 20 telegrams in one morning, usually hailing Stan with "Hiya Skipper" and requesting selections to be dedicated to "Gloria, who is as sweet as the days are long." Stan reads them all, palavers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Milkman Stan | 8/14/1939 | See Source »

...STAR SPANGLED VIRGIN-DuBose Heyward-Farrar & Rineharf...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Case Histories | 8/14/1939 | See Source »

When the New Deal's relief policies first struck its tropical poorhouse, the results were a lot stranger than on the mainland. Star Spangled Virgin's catchpenny title covers a thinly disguised series of relief case histories...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Case Histories | 8/14/1939 | See Source »

...canes, to hoist de bundle to yo' head an' feel de good weight press down on you till yo' feet bog in de wet places." Like the rest, however, Rhoda accepted relief, enjoyed its trimmings. Some of them: a local-talent band which played The Star-Spangled Banner and Tipperary just alike, an open-air performance of Pinafore in thick flannel costumes meant for Alaska, sent to St. Croix by mistake...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Case Histories | 8/14/1939 | See Source »

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