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Word: tipplers (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...minutes had every listening dog in England in a dither. When a Montgomery Dalmatian greedily chewed up a dog biscuit before the microphone, dog-owners reported widespread mouth watering. When Montgomery fox terriers, Peter and Jock, got to growling, hackles rose the length and breadth of Britain. When Tippler, a tough Corgi, refused to "speak," every obedient canine listener in Albion spoke...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Dog Day | 1/16/1939 | See Source »

...Roosevelt's remarks last fortnight about the "immorality" of Republicans voting in Democratic primaries had the effect last week of driving a new herd of the vanishing Republican elephants through the nation's cartoons. The Elephant came back in many guises, as a sea monster, a daydreaming tippler, a muezzin, a Peeping Tom (see cuts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Conservative Party | 9/12/1938 | See Source »

...Clyde Ormsby of Colorado Springs, oldest entrant in the race, who finished seventh. Called upon by broadcasters to say a few words over the radio, Mr. Ormsby was in a sorry predicament. The patrolman to whom he had entrusted his false teeth was at that moment chasing a holiday tippler down the peak...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Vertical Milers | 7/18/1938 | See Source »

...Dicksteon, Tenn., explaining that he felt "a good drunk coming on," a town tippler deposited $7.50 with Judge Robert S. Clement as advance payment of his prospective fine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Mar. 22, 1937 | 3/22/1937 | See Source »

...naive fable with the First Navigator banging the last few nails into the Ark with his stone hammer. His dowdy beard hangs in ringlets. His hoary eyebrows are the size of mustaches. And a wild mop of grey hair tops the benign face of an Irish comedian. Neither the tippler of legend nor the inflexible patriarch of the Bible, Noah's Noah is the simplest of men, worried about his mission but uncomfortably embarrassed each time he has to bother God for further instructions. Full of faith, he needs it all when, with his wife, three sons, three orphaned...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: New Play in Manhattan: Feb. 25, 1935 | 2/25/1935 | See Source »

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