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Word: unkinder (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Since you published my photograph (June 22) with the unkind legend "Give the nitwit oxygen'' I have been waiting for a chance at a comeback. Have a little oxygen yourself...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Feb. 8, 1932 | 2/8/1932 | See Source »

...legend, not unkind, was merely a paraphrase of able Dr. Walter Freeman's recommendation of oxygen to clear the wits of dementia praecox patients. In the present circumstances, TIME'S Medicine Editor will take the dose...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Feb. 8, 1932 | 2/8/1932 | See Source »

When the late plug-hatted, snow- whiskered Col. William D'Alton Mann published Town Topics 30, 40 years ago, he made a straightforward if unpleasant practice of "borrowing" large sums from individuals who did not want unkind things printed about themselves in the gossip sheet. Return of the money customarily was not made or expected, but the pompous colonel had a peculiar means of repayment at his command each Tuesday night when the magazine was being made up. On those nights he presided noisily over the editorial rooms, his lawyer at his elbow, reading and initialing proofs of every item...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: Gossiper Silenced | 1/25/1932 | See Source »

Seeking Divorce. Nancy Hoyt, 29. author (Unkind Star, Bright Intervals), sister of the late Poet Elinor Wylie ; from Edward Davison Curtis; in Reno, Nev. Auinor Hoyt is a sister of Morton McMichael Hoyt, who, twice married to Jeanne Bankhead (sister of Cinemactress Tallulah Bankhead), prankishly jumped off the S. S. Rochambeau into mid-Atlantic (TIME, July 30, 1928 et ante...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Jan. 18, 1932 | 1/18/1932 | See Source »

...left ur on the ways. Already she is in constant shoring up to prevent sa the fabric. It was suggested that at least the stern might be hurried to coi so that the vessel might be floated. Tied up at dock, she has better chance standing the unkind elements and the unkinder financial weather...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Gloom on Clydebank | 12/21/1931 | See Source »

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