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Word: thinke (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Despite the alliance of Generalissimo Chiang Kai-Shek and the Chinese Communists, Arnold does not believe China will turn communistic. "I don't think the Chinese are very strong on isms; they are essentially too practical...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Chinese Rally Against Japan Backed By Soviet Planes, Says Julean Arnold | 4/22/1938 | See Source »

...always the handsomest male which is the sexiest. Among Hollywood actors she picked George Raft as scoring high in sex personality, "But if I just look at a man they think it's something else...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Mae West Tells a Few Things to Reporters After Arriving In Boston | 4/20/1938 | See Source »

...curvy star just can't figure out why she's criticized. She empties churches, thousands flock to see her. "But many people think that because there is such a big box office there must be something wrong...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Mae West Tells a Few Things to Reporters After Arriving In Boston | 4/20/1938 | See Source »

...like to sleep. The Judge granted a postponement until matinée time. When Miss Brice showed up, she sat next to her estranged husband Billy Rose, gaily chatted with him. On the stand, she was vague, noncommittal. Asked about her first conversation with Plaintiff Allen, she observed: "I think it started as a touch." Asked whether she was in Chicago in 1933 she responded: "I don't know where I was three weeks ago, much less in 1933." Before the afternoon was over Miss Brice had slyly played her hole card. When she was asked what commission...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: Dramatic License | 4/18/1938 | See Source »

Primed with these ideas, reporters gave the President a brisk quizzing. What did he think of Government guarantee of re-organization bonds? Franklin Roosevelt replied that he could see no more justification for guaranteeing railroad reorganization bonds than for those of a cotton mill, steel company or automobile factory. A reporter suggested that it might be done to protect insurance companies and others with large railroad holdings. There has been a lot of loose talk about that, snapped the President, when, as a matter of fact, banks and insurance companies generally make a practice of writing down their portfolios along...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Roosevelt on Railroads | 4/18/1938 | See Source »

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