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Word: starks (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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After all the outery that followed Mr. Santayana's novel, to the effect that he was making fun of the Boston character, it is nice to see the truth at last revealed, all stark and naked: that the Boston character makes fun of itself--really...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Off Key | 3/3/1937 | See Source »

...election was a great triumph for Kansas City's Democratic machine. Its endorsees swept all offices: Lloyd Crow Stark was elected Governor, 12 Democrats were elected to Missouri's 13 seats in the House of Representatives. Kansas City with only 10% of Missouri's population gave Roosevelt 30% of his majority in the State...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MISSOURI: Machine Busting | 2/22/1937 | See Source »

...bachelor realtor who is St. Louis' mayor until at least April 6 (municipal election day), last week literally was in a smoky fog, and had been there for many winter weeks. The murk over St. Louis has been so thick that the new Governor of Missouri, Lloyd Crow Stark, an enterprising nurseryman, could not see the city streets when he flew over during an inspection of the Ohio-Mississippi flood. He wished that Mayor Dickmann would sign a pending city ordinance to abate the smoke which makes St. Louis grimier than notorious Pittsburgh...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: St. Louis Smoke | 2/22/1937 | See Source »

...months at Harvard can make a fellow. With our thesis half completed and a ticket on the Monarch of Bermuda in the drawer, life was nothing but a brave new world of dreams. Yet suddenly a tale of horror struck a note of tragedy into our symphony of pleasure, stark tragedy crashed mightily about our cars...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Crime | 2/20/1937 | See Source »

...wife is the goddess of Hindu civilization, the mother is its pivot, and the grandmother is the ruler of the home." Author Yeats-Brown went wherever he could find holy men. dervishes, religious teachers. In Allahabad he watched the parade of 1,000 stark naked followers of Siva...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Passage to India | 1/18/1937 | See Source »

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