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Word: tomming (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Tom Tom Tom Tom Sirs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Jul. 30, 1928 | 7/30/1928 | See Source »

...TOM of the tom-tom" (TIME, current issue). The scrivener runs riot, tom-tomming all over his paragraph. Let a protest be noted. Peeping TOMS, TOMboys, Blind TOMS, TOM-tits, TOMcats, TOMcods, TOM turkeys, Long TOMS, the TOM of the tom-toms as words, should be axed. Why should a noble name be subject to veiled insult and subtle abuse? Sir, in the game of Gleek the knave of trumps is called TOM! An oyster's liver is sneeringly called a TOMalley! Why not Peter for the Peepers, Terry for the little girls who break windows and thumb their...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Jul. 30, 1928 | 7/30/1928 | See Source »

...TOM LENNON Oakland, Calif...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Jul. 30, 1928 | 7/30/1928 | See Source »

Senator James Thomas ("Tom Tom") Heflin of Alabama, who suggested that the South nominate a new set of Democratic electors and vote for them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DEMOCRATS: Bandwagon | 7/16/1928 | See Source »

...What d'ya Say?" Creeping forth from his cool cabaret with enhanced joie de vivre, Harry Richman shouted "I'm on the crest of a wave. . . ." As in all of Producer White's assemblies, the footwork in the Scandals was swift and spry, attended to by Tom Patricola, a pair of coordinated sisters, a well-coached chorus, and Producer White in person. Willie and Eugene Howard were part of what was funny; the rest was Arthur Page who gave tongue to this pretty berceuse: "Buy low, sell high, buy low, sell high. That's your father...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Jul. 16, 1928 | 7/16/1928 | See Source »

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