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Word: witches (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...battle between priceless God-fearing principles on the one hand and pagan ideals and godlessness on the other. ... In these troubled days, when you strengthen the hand of law enforcement, you add power to the muscles of liberty. . . ." He added piously, "Our efforts must not develop into a witch hunt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: No Witches | 11/6/1939 | See Source »

...Communist Daily Worker, Mr. Quill called A. L. P.'s summons to battle against Communism and Naziism a piece of warmongering, hotly refused to endorse the resolution. "I never have been and am not a member of the Communist Party," said he. "I refuse, however, to join any witch hunt. ... I refuse to participate in a campaign which leads inevitably to the suppression of the labor movement and all liberal and progressive forces in the nation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: Red Lights Out | 10/16/1939 | See Source »

...airplanes, spoil machines, plant bombs by night in factories where the bomb-planters make their living by day, then uncorks a Hollywood program of vigilantes and kangaroo courts for dealing with them, Sabotage begins to look like the well-timed opening gun in a campaign to shoot for the witch-hunter trade...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Oct. 16, 1939 | 10/16/1939 | See Source »

Ding-Dong, The Witch is Dead, Harold Arlen's most appealing peal from The Wizard of Oz, gets by far its best record production (verse and all) from Tenor Ralph Blane and Franklyn Mark's band (Liberty Music Shop...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: The Lion | 10/2/1939 | See Source »

...Western (Christian) Civilization we still have left the conception of heroism based on the Arthurian Cycle. Mothers still tell their children tales of the strong and the brave who conquer the wicked, cruel giant or dragon or witch. It seems a little too much to swallow when St. George deliberately goes up to the Dragon to be decorated...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jul. 10, 1939 | 7/10/1939 | See Source »

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