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Word: toe (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...incident occurred during a Mussolini speech to the pick of his Blackshirts, assembled in Rome from all over Italy's knee, shin, heel and toe. The Blackshirts were on a jaunt. All expenses to and from Rome had been paid. In their pockets were fine crisp bank notes, "prizes" for Fascist merits, ranging from 500 to 2,000 lire. All this conspired to confuse them when Il Duce rhetorically touched on the subject of self-sacrifice. Confidently expecting a negative answer, he threw back his head and bellowed: "Do you want riches? Do you want glory? Do you want...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: Comforts to Come | 5/1/1939 | See Source »

...Toe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Joke | 5/1/1939 | See Source »

...Toe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Apr. 17, 1939 | 4/17/1939 | See Source »

...Manhattan, Nurse Marian Cribbs was awakened by someone tweaking her big toe. Tweaker was a man who said he had come to rob her. Instead he kissed her foot, tried to kiss her. Resourceful Nurse Cribbs reminded him it was Lent, shooed him out, promised to meet him later. At the rendezvous he met police...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Apr. 17, 1939 | 4/17/1939 | See Source »

...sensation of the Castles' debut a year later is adroitly prefaced with sequences showing Vernon Castle teaching his new wife his routine and then failing utterly to impress Fields; the genesis of the tip-toe Castle Walk, designed not to disturb the occupants of the Paris apartment below their own; and their meeting with Maggie Sutton (Edna May Oliver), who gets them their first engagement in return for a dinner...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Dancing Girl | 4/10/1939 | See Source »

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