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Word: warns (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...right. There's no gettin' around that. But us Americans have sorta got a place in our hearts for Jesse. Mebbe it's because he was so gol-durned good at the job he was aimin' to do. Mebbe it's because we all know that Jesse warn't really a bad man and a killer. What could a feller do when them blasted railroads robbed you of your lawful own, and then killed your poor old mother? And mebbe it's just because he was the cussin'est, dad-blame-dest, boldest buckaroo which ever come from Missouri...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Moviegoer | 2/3/1939 | See Source »

Eddie Cantor (Sun. 11 p. m. CBS, MBS, NBC-Blue), leads the March of Dimes to the assistance of the Warn Springs Foundation. Celebrities by the dozen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Programs Previewed: Jan. 23, 1939 | 1/23/1939 | See Source »

Most crucial test of the Chamberlain policy will come this week when the Prime Minister and Foreign Secretary Viscount Halifax go to Rome. They will stop over for a two-hour tea in Paris, where French Premier Edouard Daladier is expected to warn Mr. Chamberlain not to start appeasing Dictator Benito Mussolini with French territory. Mr. Chamberlain's dilemma at Rome will be that he cannot get concessions from Italy (such as less co-operation with Germany, no more menacing gestures toward France) without giving away something, and he cannot give away much without arousing opposition at home...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Second Hundred Thousand | 1/16/1939 | See Source »

Magic. At Corsica the French used a neat bit of pagan lore to warn off the Italians. As the Premier was being ecstatically hailed by the fiery islanders in Ajaccio and Bastia, French warships circled the island. No Corsican-and no Italian-could have failed to get the point that this was a modern version of the old Norse magic of surrounding a spot with fire (in this case, navy steel) to keep out evil (Italians...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: They Are French! | 1/16/1939 | See Source »

...must be difficult to pontificate on the daily happenings of this hectic would and one sympathizes with the columnist's tendency to formularize. But when the keynote speech of the head of the Democratic party is "simplified" into a Republican tract, the time has come to warn the ingenuous author that the reading public draws the line somewhere...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MR. LIPPMANN HAILS MR. ROOSEVELT | 1/10/1939 | See Source »

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