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...result. Massachusetts, for example, saw in 1937 a 40 per cent increase of its evening automobile accidents, with increases in arrests for drunkenness corresponding. Figures for 1938 show that the condition is becoming worse. If prohibition failed to squelch Mr. Barleycorn, surely repeal has sent him off on one whopper of a bender...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BARLEYCORN ON A BENDER | 10/5/1938 | See Source »

...Experienced theatregoers worried little whether Lightnin' would date, knowing that it already dated when first written. For old as folk drama is the tale of warm-hearted Lightnin' Bill Jones, who loafs as chronically as Rip van Winkle, lies as outrageously as Tartarin of Tarascon. Typical whopper: how he drove a swarm of bees across a prairie in the dead of winter without losing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Old Play in Manhattan: Sep. 26, 1938 | 9/26/1938 | See Source »

...Whopper...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Partisan | 5/16/1938 | See Source »

...Streets takes off from the same social springboard as Dead End's, but misses its footing, comes a belly-whopper...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Dec. 20, 1937 | 12/20/1937 | See Source »

...limericks will not be printed about the same person until considerable time has clasped, and not even then unless it is a whopper, it is a good idea to develop a loss outstanding character rather then do a mediocre job on one of the grand patoots...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Limerick Contest Will Give Chance At Dollar a Week to Playful Artists | 10/19/1937 | See Source »

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