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Word: wolfs (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Even faster than they get panicked, British get bored, and by last week they were heartily fed up with groping around in the dark waiting for gas and bombs which never materialized. And the Government began to realize that wolf-wolfing the populace every night was poor psychology. A reaction set in. In "safe" areas, 2,000 cinemas opened, reported exceptional business. Actors went on the road: 73-year-old Dame Marie Tempest in Dear Octopus, John Gielgud in The Importance of Being Earnest, Diana Wynyard in Design for Living. Christmas pantomime Producer Francis Laidler went ahead with plans...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Wolf! Wolf! | 9/25/1939 | See Source »

...obscure, agonized hodgepodge in which Rimbaud addicts* trace the wrestlings of his André Gide-like puritanism with his André Gide-like passions. But from then until he died, at 37, in a Marseille hospital, Arthur Rimbaud never wrote again. This amazing break with his genius, his lone-wolf prowlings through the lower depths of Europe, his gunrunning in Africa and Asia form a vague, provoking literary legend of which even the surer facts have been concealed, exaggerated, distorted, hushed up by shocked relatives or embroidered by starry-eyed admirers of his relations with famed Symbolist Poet Paul Verlaine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Season in Hell | 9/18/1939 | See Source »

...Alaskans have never seen a wolf pack, do not know anyone who has (counting a pack as more than five, which is a family...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TERRITORIES: Defrosting | 8/28/1939 | See Source »

...Despite that loss Oregon is still the leading lumber State, still has the nation's largest remaining stands of commercial timber. Last week the No. 1 lumber State, parched by weeks of hot weather, was on fire again in the worst blaze since Tillamook. At Saddle Mountain, at Wolf Creek, at Dutch Canyon, west and north of Portland, palls of smoke and ash hung over the rough country, thousands of men manned the lines with hoses, axes and bulldozers as the red tiger of the forests once more devoured Oregon's natural wealth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: OREGON: Red Tiger | 8/21/1939 | See Source »

...last word drowned in thunderous cheers when he keynoted for a "third term for Roosevelt's ideals." Josh Lee, the junior Senator from Oklahoma, caused pandemonium by yelling: "Now is the time to unleash the devil dogs of democracy and set them baying on the trail of the Wolf of Wall Street! America, now is the time to unsheathe the sword of human rights! Now is the time to raise the banner of Roosevelt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CAMPAIGN: War on Straddlebugs | 8/21/1939 | See Source »

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