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Word: sweets (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Minister is most generous with them as his sympathy goes out to the per son who has never tasted the lusciousness of an American baked potato split through the center while it is steaming hot and filled with a huge piece of fresh, sweet butter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FINLAND: Potatoes v. Asparagus | 7/13/1931 | See Source »

Fearing you of the East may still think this territory possibly "BACKWARD" a la Grundy, believe it TiMEly to report seeing Sweet Girl Graduate on the street in Moorhead, our twin town (see map), wearing bright crimson beach pajamas and her MORTARBOARD...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jun. 29, 1931 | 6/29/1931 | See Source »

...Manhattan. Troubadour Downey had nothing much in his pocket except a cable from William S. Paley, president of Columbia Broadcasting Co., promising him a chance. In November he started the Delmonico Club, broadcast from it first once a week, then three times. Radio listeners liked his voice?high, sweet, and vaguely Irish?so much that a month later he was given a chance to compete with Blackfacists Amos 'n Andy whose grouchy arguments were considered an impregnable favorite with dinner-table audiences. The final proof of an immense, mysterious appeal was then found in the fact that some listeners, although...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Harvest Moon | 6/22/1931 | See Source »

Father Malachy's actions may offend some rigidly Catholic readers, but that is not Catholic Author Marshall's intention. Father Malachy is supposed to be a sweet old thing; it is his sweetness (not to say sappiness) that may offend most. This is the way you catch him thinking about God: "Dear old Almighty...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Cavalry, C. S. A.* | 6/22/1931 | See Source »

SANCTUARY My Land is bare of chattering folk; The clouds arc low along the ridges, And sweet's the air with curly smoke From all my burning bridges...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Parting Kicker | 6/15/1931 | See Source »

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