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Word: want (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...turned into a young man. But Marguerite denies he is Faust and because he cannot prove it he finally just fades away. Yes, it is rather amusing." From one of the Stein songs: "The devil what the devil do I care if the devil is there. . . . And you wanted my soul what the hell did you want my soul for how do you know I have a soul who says so nobody says so but you the devil and everybody knows the devil is all lies." Arrested for driving 37 m.p.h. along London's Victoria Embankment (7 m.p.h. over...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Nov. 28, 1938 | 11/28/1938 | See Source »

...long has the U. S. been in the habit of giving Europe advice which hasn't been worth the paper printed on. We don't want America's counsel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Nov. 21, 1938 | 11/21/1938 | See Source »

Pensions. California, although it elected Pensioneer Sheridan Downey to the Senate, did not want $30 Every Thursday for its old folks at the cost of a serious monetary experiment, returned a 100,000 majority against it. Oregon rejected a "citizens' retirement annuity plan" which would have paid up to $100 a month, but instructed its Legislature to memorialize Congress on behalf of the Townsend Plan. Nebraskans refused to license slot machines to provide more pension revenue. Elsewhere the pension cause was successful. North Dakota approved pensions of $40 a month. Colorado rejected an amendment repealing its present...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Referenda | 11/21/1938 | See Source »

Huey, the Morey thinks, the more he's Fearon' cause the bigger they are the Harder they fall. If you want to know the score its Harvard 20 - Yale...

Author: By Hu FLUNG Huey, | Title: LOOK FOR HUEY IN THE BOWL HE'LL HAVE THE LADLE | 11/18/1938 | See Source »

...irony of that story is one that Margaret Sanger is herself the first to see. Behind the applause she hears a rumbling a thousand times more ominous than any that ever came from court or church-a rumbling from Europe's dictator-ridden countries, which distinctly do not want Birth Control, are much more interested in cannon fodder than in eugenics...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Sanger Saga | 11/14/1938 | See Source »

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