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Word: thoughts (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Between daubs of mascara in Boston's notorious showplace, the strip queen affirmed her loathing for the audience of the Manhattan metropolis. Blinded by over-concentrated spots, burlesques suffer from the unhealthy expectancy of the crowd there whose only thought is "how many and how soon" clothes will be discarded...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Ann Corio Blames Minsky for Burlesque Demise in New York; Favors Vassar's Marriage Courses | 5/3/1937 | See Source »

...Yeah, I saw them, two of them, riding fast, and suddenly a tree Burp! (Pardon me, it's this stuff) loomed up from nowhere, smashed the car, and drew life's blood. Luckily they died outright, and they did not feel the blood trickle. The thought of the speeding, the sudden, final movements, and the dying, the passing . . . A cold slab, flesh cold, blood dried, eyes wide and staring dead. Have you ever...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE VAGABOND | 5/3/1937 | See Source »

Whether the main attack on Oahu we successful only the umpires knew. The inhabitants of Honolulu were undisturbed save by distant sound of heavy guns, the droning of airplanes, searchlights scanning the skies at night. Nonetheless they thought it pretty grim. After the "destruction" of Hilo they did not find it hard to imagine what was happening to them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARMY & NAVY: Eight Days? | 5/3/1937 | See Source »

That, said Call, was the complete story. The best of relations had been maintained with Wellesley throughout. Things had been talked out quietly, thought out logically. Apologies were given where due. Wellesley had expressed willingness to extend hospitality at a future date...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Publicity Killed Lowell Crew Race With Wellesley | 4/29/1937 | See Source »

There was a day in the history of Stillman Infirmary when students hated to go there because they thought they were not treated right by the staff: the doctors were unpopular for their medicines, the nurses for their manner of approach. Indeed the nurses were considered tyrannical, nothing short of petty martinettes...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE CRIME | 4/29/1937 | See Source »

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