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Word: transom (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Editor Wythe Williams of Connecticut's Greenwich Time wrote that a Berlin tipster had taken "a peek through the key-hole or a glance through the transom of the Goebbels sickroom," had seen the Little Doctor bundled in thick bandages- not the usual treatment for intestinal influenza...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: Doctor's Medicine | 1/9/1939 | See Source »

...Washington's Adams Building stenographers of the Democratic National Committee were annoyed by pungent cooking odors wafted through the transom of General Hugh Samuel Johnson's office next door. When their complaints went unheeded, they bided their time, found the door open one day, spied the General's loyal Secretary Frances ("Robbie") Robinson midway between icebox and stove with a bowl of onions. Questioned, Secretary "Robbie" admitted she often cooked steak for the General's lunch, but snorted: "I never cook onions because they don't agree with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Apr. 6, 1936 | 4/6/1936 | See Source »

...strangely happy couple with growing suspicion, at length called them up and wrung a confession of their marriage. One of the pair, the officials decided, must leave. That night thunder rolled over Tappan, drowning out the sound of two revolver shots. Next morning the superintendent peered over a transom at the lifeless bodies of Mr. & Mrs. John Ellich...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Sep. 24, 1934 | 9/24/1934 | See Source »

...familiar sawed-off figure of Abie with his slick black hair, big nose, thick lips and mustache, cigaret and smoke rings, did not appear in the Graphic's strip. Instead there was this lettered dialog issuing from the transom of a door labelled "Z. Eppess. Plastic Surgeon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Nisht Gehdelt | 3/7/1932 | See Source »

...well, it appears....it must be, I have it straight from Winchell....and he knows about that sort of thing....just one more before the fish eggs....Winter Place you aay?....I don't think they'll let us....you'll remember last time....the artichokes right through the transom onto Nick Stuhl....yes and Stogie threw oysters in the electric fan....well perhaps....just one before the fish eggs....ah, don't be a snitface...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "Why You Have Headaches" or "Champagne, Mirabeau, and Mooseheads," in Just One Act | 11/8/1930 | See Source »

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