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Word: stockinged (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Other ideas: Nations are preparing for war. Japan in particular is rumored to have urged its subjects to buy platinum jewelry. England and Russia were reported to be anxious to keep Japan from stocking up on platinum. Japanese buyers were reported offering $3 an oz. premium for platinum in the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Platinum Boom | 9/7/1936 | See Source »

In the early years of the 19th Century, when England was ruled by the fat and foolish Prince of Wales, when Beau Brummell set the fashions, when Byron was revelling in the popular success of Childe Harold, a sprightly young lady named Harriette Dubochet, who had run away from home...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Gabby Harlot | 6/22/1936 | See Source »

Born Katharine Marjory Ramsay, the Duchess of Atholl, musician and lawn tennist, has been a Member of Parliament since 1923. Among her accomplishments are the organization of the Perthshire District Nurse Associations; the composition, for pianoforte, of Song-Flowers from A Child's Garden of Verses; and the assemblage...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Children of the Chimney | 4/6/1936 | See Source »

An hour before the broadcast some 100 patriotic and prosperous members of the National Americanization League, led by a be-spatted onetime alderman from Manhattan's "silk stocking" district and a burly onetime major general in the Irish Army, appeared before the Columbia Broadcasting building, marched up & down the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RADICALS: Red's Network | 3/16/1936 | See Source »

4) Once a week "the resident pupils" were taken on field trips, also any day girls whose parents approved. Among the places visited and reported on were: Ellis Island, Washington Market, churches, banks, skyscrapers, the Juvenile Court, City Hall, The National Biscuit Co. plants, a silk stocking factory, the Botanical...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Feb. 17, 1936 | 2/17/1936 | See Source »

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