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Word: swats (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...hefty, two-fisted* Author Ernest Hemingway sat in a swank Manhattan nightspot, one Eddie Chapman, broker, sneered: "So you're Hemingway? . . , Tough guy, huh?" and pushed him in the face. Said a friend at Hemingway's table: "Swat him but don't draw blood." Hemingway swatted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Jan. 23, 1939 | 1/23/1939 | See Source »

...drove to Lincoln Park. "I want to play," said she, "but what shall I do? I'm wearing high heels." While a large gallery gaped and tittered, Actress Lawrence stepped up to the tee of the 184-yd. eighth, removed her shoes, borrowed a spoon, took a healthy swat at the ball. It fell short. She took another, got closer. The third ball plopped on the green, rolled 5 ft. 6 in. from the cup. Asked her handicap. Golfer Lawrence explained: "My handicap is the ball...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Aug. 22, 1938 | 8/22/1938 | See Source »

...place, whose first names are the basis of its name, are two exceedingly gentle, wellborn Philadelphians. White-haired Robert Restalrig Logan has for 25 years been president of the American Anti-Vivisection Society, is a vegetarian and dislikes to have his guests brush down a spider web or swat a mosquito. His wife, Sara Wetherill Logan, was exhorted by the late Theosophist Annie Besant a decade ago to "try an experiment in character-building" and discharge her servants...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: At Sarobia | 9/20/1937 | See Source »

...Pathans who periodically attack the Lower Mohmands, pets of the British Government, and raise hob generally in the Northwest. Time after time the British have marched into Upper Mohmand Land to protect their pets. Blandly incorrigible, the Upper Mohmands went on kidnapping and selling the women of nearby Swat, raiding the great, heavily-guarded caravan kafilas that wind under the British railway bridges through the Khyber Pass. Lately the British have busily pushed a road for the first time into Upper Mohmand land. To Badshah Gul, son of the Haji of Turangzai, toward whose mountain plain the Gandab Road seemed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDIA: Haji's Son Spanked | 9/30/1935 | See Source »

Attempts made to secure the services of Babe Ruth and Rabbit Maranville, he of the marsupial catch, but came to naught, inasmuch as the Sultan of Swat and his midget teammate must be tucked in early these nights...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MANY CELEBRITIES WILL APPEAR FOR TONIGHT'S SMOKER | 4/30/1935 | See Source »

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