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Word: teller (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...wife of Tycoon Floyd Bostwick Odium (Atlas Corp.), broke her own record for the loo-kilometer airplane course, set a new mark of 286,418 m. p. h. In Manhattan, Mrs. Hortense McQuarrie Odium, ex-wife of Tycoon Odium, celebrated her fifth year as smart president of smart Bonwit Teller's store...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Oct. 9, 1939 | 10/9/1939 | See Source »

...bright California lights as Millard Sheets, William Wendt, William Griffith, Frank Cuprien, Ruth Peabody hung their pictures; the works of lesser lights were displayed in sideshow booths forming an open square. In one booth free oils and modeling clay tempted visitors to test their talent. In another a fortune teller revealed if they had any to test...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: In Laguna | 8/7/1939 | See Source »

When Scene Designer Robert Edmond Jones began the Central City festival (with Lillian Gish in Camille), he frowned on sideshows, drinking shindigs in the Teller House bar. Present producer-director of the festival is Frank St. Leger, Chicago musician. Last week square dances, tintype studios, night-club entertainers flourished once more in Central City. With The Yeomen running up the best box office in recent years, likelihood was that the festival would henceforth stick to plushy musical shows...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: In Central City | 7/24/1939 | See Source »

...African Methodist Episcopal bishop in Capetown, South Africa, another who is a physician, a daughter who is a St. Louis high-school teacher. His third son is a cashier in his father's bank, and another of his five daughters is a teller...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BANKING: Up From Slavery | 7/17/1939 | See Source »

...however, the U. S. acquired a very competent specimen of the breed-a present from Adolf Hitler. He is Otto Jeidels (pronounced Yi-dels), a tall handsome man with a twinkle in his eye, who habitually talks so fast that no one else can get in a word. Before teller purged German banking he was only one size smaller than Hjalmar Schacht himself; now he is a partner of the Manhattan banking firm of Lazard Freres...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BANKING: Insider from Overseas | 7/3/1939 | See Source »

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