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Word: worded (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...effort, however, was worth it since large numbers of men are reported to flash the hash whenever they see the word "spinach," whereas the "Spanish" only causes the readers of the "Nation" any gastronomic trouble...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SPINACH FOR SPANISH GIVES LOWELL GASTRONOMIC UPSET | 1/27/1937 | See Source »

Last week jubilant British subjects were looking anxiously at their King's smooth chin. Word had gone round that His Majesty's Government in the person of Squire Baldwin had advised the King-Emperor to grow a beard...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Grow a Beard | 1/25/1937 | See Source »

Everyone read the screaming headlines and dispatches which, from the outbreak of the Bolshevist revolution in 1917 to the expulsion from Russia of Trotsky in 1929 made his name a household word in even land and stamped Bolshevism for all time with the trademark of "Lenin & Trotsky," but not everyone today could define Trotskyism...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Trotsky, Stalin & Cardenas | 1/25/1937 | See Source »

...deadly conventionality in acting which oppresses the majority of the cast. Jacques's superb rendition of the "All the World's a Stage" speech makes a dull-evening a happy one. But for the others a tremendous consciousness that they were acting Shakespeare seemed to add pounds to every word, gesture and expression. The feeling assailed one after the first few lines and remained rarely contradicted throughout...

Author: By A. C. B., | Title: The Playgoer | 1/22/1937 | See Source »

Without doubt the United Auto Workers would be repudiated if 7a were applied, for a majority of the men seem to be opposed to that union. A form of compulsory arbitration is the pass word out of the impasse, assuring justice as far as it can be determined and saving the faces of both sides. Owners and unions alike ought to be haled into court if they cannot work together smoothly, for just as it has police power to coerce disorderly citizens, the public should have machinery to stop the endless and costly bickering of the current strikes...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: GET LABOR UP ON ITS FEET BY EASTER | 1/19/1937 | See Source »

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