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Word: whisk (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...insurance collector, was coming down the stairs. He saw Ferguson, naked, reach out and seize little Lizzie, whisk her into his room, slam the door. Fox ran for a policeman. "You can't come in here!" Ferguson shouted to them. "Nobody can come in here but Jesus Christ...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Handy Man | 7/24/1939 | See Source »

...England their subjects were preparing to show them how glad they were to have them back. Planes and more battleships will meet them at sea to escort them into Southampton. A five-car special will whisk them to London, where their children, Queen Mary and the Cabinet will be waiting at the station. In the is-minute procession to Buckingham Palace the Princesses Elizabeth and Margaret Rose will ride in the open landau with their father and mother. There will be no formal decorations, but residents along the way are invited to display "spontaneous" decorations, and M.P.s will gather outside...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CANADA: You Must Be Tired | 6/26/1939 | See Source »

...expansion and modernization program initiated by former Chairman Myron Taylor in 1928, the Irvin Works cost around $45,000,000, were built in 19 months, have 51 acres under roof. Located atop a hill to avoid floods, the plant will employ 3,750 men at capacity, whisk steel from slab to sheet at a speed of 20 m.p.h. Last week's celebration dealt largely with these marvels, barely touched upon the wider significance of the Irvin Works to the Steel Industry...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANUFACTURING: Finest Yet | 12/26/1938 | See Source »

...Jumel Mansion. Great Lady is a "biography with music'' of the mansion's former chatelaine, high-stepping Madame Eliza Jumel. From being put in the stocks for misbehaving in Providence, R. I., Eliza went on to dally with a French cavalier, marry a French businessman, almost whisk Napoleon to the U. S. after Waterloo, curtsy before Louis XVIII of France and make a second marriage, late in life, with Aaron Burr...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Musical in Manhattan: Dec. 12, 1938 | 12/12/1938 | See Source »

...cohorts of organized morcy arrive and whisk away the two damp little recipients of bureaucracy's favor from their hour of glory to an anonymous future at the dog-pound...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: STRAY DOGS TAKE SHELTER ON UNIVERSITY HALL STEPS | 10/25/1937 | See Source »

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