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Word: taile (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...described himself as "intentionally witty"; when his audience laughed, would wag his tail and yap, "I laugh heartily...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Animals: Intentionally Witty | 3/14/1938 | See Source »

...dangerous to know because he eliminates occasional associates with sad-eyed sadism. With his town's financial and civic agencies pretty well in thrall he makes the social error of trying to snare a fine-feathered society girl (Gail Patrick), accidentally spills a little salt on his own tail, ends up where the righteous Hays office likes to see all enemies of society...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Also Showing | 3/14/1938 | See Source »

...nation had the World by the tail this week, but the rear end of the British lion was within measurable distance of Adolf Hitler's grasp as he spent three hours addressing the German Reichstag...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: Give Us Colonies!! | 2/28/1938 | See Source »

...Royalties amounted to $412,000, over half of Cluett's $728,000 net for 1937. Cluett is the second largest U. S. shirt maker in a field of 800, but if Sanforizing continues to spread it may become the tail that wags the shirt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Shirt Tale | 2/21/1938 | See Source »

...satisfied was Royal Dutch Airlines (K. L. M.). which in ordering eleven new Lockheeds insisted on a better aerodynamic balance in the twin tail-and got it. Lockheed, proud of its $100,000, 250-m.p.h. ship, is now adding a static balance similar to that on K. L. M.'s to all 14H models. Only eight of this model have so far been delivered (all to Northwest Airlines) but the 5½-acre Lockheed plant at Burbank, Calif., just enlarged after a record year's business ($4,750,000), has more than $6,000,000 in unfilled orders...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: Tail Trouble | 2/14/1938 | See Source »

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