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Word: wolfing (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...wife and child in one of St. Louis' most famed murder cases. He has covered 15 hangings, innumerable murders, never a lynching. Once he heard there were going to be two lynchings in one night, picked the wrong one, never got another chance. Paul Y. Anderson, Marcus Wolf, Herbert Bayard Swope and Theodore Dreiser were all St. Louis cubs when Jock Bellairs was a veteran. In A Book About Myself, Dreiser puzzled over Bellairs' "curious compound of indifference, wisdom, literary and political sense," the whiskey bottle he kept in his pocket "to save time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Old Timers | 8/7/1939 | See Source »

Prokofieff: Peter and the Wolf (Boston Symphony, Serge Koussevitzky conducting; Richard Hale, narrator; Victor, 6 sides). An engaging "orchestral fairy tale," full of duck-quacks (oboe), bird-twitters (flute), wolf-growls (horns), jovially rendered by the Bostonians who gave it its first U. S. hearing last year. Album of the month...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MUSIC: August Records, Aug. 7, 193 | 8/7/1939 | See Source »

...bones of the wolf that nurtured Romulus...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Current Affairs Test, Jun. 26, 1939 | 6/26/1939 | See Source »

...everything was bright and sunny, of course. After the first four or five "frame-ups" and "sell-outs", the effect of the play's message began to wear off, simply because Mr. Blitzstein had cried "wolf" too often. The music was occasionally too loud, and the articulation not always clear. But these were only minor defects in a well-molded whole for which Directors Bernstein and Szathmary deserve considerable credit Miss. Mann's singing of "Nickel under the Foot" was delightful, the acting of Donald Davidson and Kendall Smith quite professional. By and large "The Cradle Will Rock...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Playgoer | 5/29/1939 | See Source »

...Baltimore. Adding designers, draftsmen, withdrawing more & more from designing to administer the business, Martin turned out better & better models in rapid succession. He swapped little information with other manufacturers, became known as a sombre lone wolf. From the Cleveland plant came the first plane built specifically for mail service, the first metal American monoplane, of which the Navy bought 36, the first bomber with an alloy-steel fuselage, of which the Navy bought...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: Kites to Bombers | 5/29/1939 | See Source »

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