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Word: whisk (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...perambulated babies, a sleeping porch for the tenement district and a cyuosure for sightseers, but as a battlefield of crime and bestiality, a sink of dissipation. The picture starts with a theft of hotdogs by two hungry, penniless young lovers. A pair of racketeers pretending to be detectives whisk the girl (Joan Blondell) away to the Central Park Casino, force her to aid their scheme for robbing the till of an unemployment benefit. Her young man (Wallace Ford) finds out about the crookery in time to catch the criminals by chasing them through the park in a high-powered...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Dec. 19, 1932 | 12/19/1932 | See Source »

...loss to provide transitions: one moment he commands a gigantic map to appear on the floor, so that he can stride about, with one foot in Tibet and another in Hong Kong, pointing out the route. Again, when time presses, he produces a most convincing magic carpet to whisk his party home to Hollywood on the tick of the eightieth minute. Yet these tricks of photography and sound-recording seem not at all out of place with such a spellbinder at hand. Mr. Fairbanks does very well indeed with his eighty minutes and ours...

Author: By G. G. D., | Title: The Crimson Playgoer | 2/19/1932 | See Source »

...dust, chalk, clay, bad weather make teaching hard on clothes. (Use a whisk-broom, towel, shoebrush...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Outfit | 1/18/1932 | See Source »

...over-fecund keys of typewriter and linotype, where flying fingers run riot in a manner unknown to the plodding scribe and compositor of an earlier day. Finally, there are the advertisers, who distill the strongest potations from Mr. Roget's Thesaurus to set off the merits of each new whisk-broom...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: VERBAL INFLATION | 11/20/1931 | See Source »

...cannot be left to suffer all night, until some servant shall dispose of it. You lift the trap and the creature, back broken, raises on its fore legs, biting in all directions, seeking to reach the hand that would end its misery. Placed, with the trap on a whisk broom, for convenient carrying, its little teeth bite fiercely at the broom...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Animals: Brisbane's Mouse | 8/31/1931 | See Source »

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