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Word: sweeping (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...20th. Well, today I says to Mrs. MacIntosh, I says, "I don't like the looks of that boy; no sir, I don't. And if I find his clothes all over the room again or have to sweep up any more gin glasses, I've a very good mind to speak to him. You bet." Macky laughed hard at that (I see she has a new gold tooth); the old for would, since she ain't got any one as bad as Mr. Fathead...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Vagabond | 10/20/1937 | See Source »

...shorter name for such offspring, Miss Bennett as Terry Randall struggles through three acts and six scenes defending that creed. She sees her beau, an ill-mannered thunder-and-lightning radical, get enmeshed in the celluloid toils, and tells him where to go when he tries to sweep her off to his California paradise. She sees her best friend in the Footlight Club, the actress's refuge, escape from failure by way of poison. She sees a beautiful nitwit accept a film contract which she herself turns down, get acclaimed by the moviegoing public, and return to do a play...

Author: By E. C. B., | Title: The Crimson Playgoer | 10/19/1937 | See Source »

...Senator James Couzens. The battle to succeed him developed into a three-cornered fight among C. I. O., A. F. of L. and Detroit's better businessmen. Sponsored by the city's conservative citizenry who earlier in the year were fearful that a united labor slate would sweep the field, was Richard W. Reading, long-time city clerk. The C. I. O. candidate was an oldtime Democrat named Patrick O'Brien, Michigan's 69-year-old veteran attorney general who made his liberal name as circuit judge during the copper mine strikes in Michigan before...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: In Detroit | 10/18/1937 | See Source »

Only in the sweep of a fad could such non-fiction sales records, as reported up to last week, have been made. Only reasonable was it also that such sales should arouse the envy of magazine publishers. In the past fortnight two veteran publishers from opposite poles invaded the psychoanalytical & adult education field. One was the defunct Whiz-Bang's Publisher Wilford H. ("Captain Billy") Fawcett, the other the defunct Literary Digest's Wilfred John Funk...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: Funk & Fawcett | 10/18/1937 | See Source »

Bowler McArthur's skill was further rewarded when he and his curly-haired cousin Lachlan M. (also for nothing) beat M. R. Sleater & Robert Bowie of the Essex County Club (N. J.), 24-to-12, to win the doubles title. In the singles, Chicago Lawn completed its clean sweep of national championships when one-armed William Milmine almost bowled Detroit's J. S. Weir off the green in the final...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Lawn Bowlers | 8/23/1937 | See Source »

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