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Word: wrapped (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Upon leaving a pre-Christmas party given by Attorney General & Mrs. Homer Stille Cummings, Mrs. Campbell Prichett got the wrong wrap. Few days later Attorney General Cummings dispatched a G-Man to call on more than 200 of his other guests, get Mrs. Prichett's own wrap back. The G-Man failed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Jan. 11, 1937 | 1/11/1937 | See Source »

...asked to vote $125,000 annually to maintain the Duke and problematic Duchess of Windsor. There was no thought of maintaining them in the style to which Mrs. Simpson has become accustomed in the last few months, though she will doubtless receive for Christmas the $25,000 ermine wrap now being completed in Oxford Street...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: New King & Ham Toast | 12/28/1936 | See Source »

...hundred and twenty presses are now drumming out 200,000 catalogs a day, will not complete their run until sometime in September. Donnelley's has four-color presses in which special chemicals dry the ink quickly, machines which wrap and label 8000 books an hour. Five hundred girls do nothing but hand-work- inserting color pages and swatches of cloth. One girl can stick on 1000 swatches an hour-about one every three seconds. In binding the books no stitching is used; the pages are stuck together as they whiz through a glueing machine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Bulk | 8/3/1936 | See Source »

...afternoon last week, the President received a fresh and odorous wreath of flowers to wrap around his neck. Three mornings earlier, the same flowers had been growing to their native roots in Hawaii. New air transportation over the Pacific had made it possible for Governor Joseph B. Poindexter to get unfaded Hawaiian leis to the White House in record time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Roosevelt Week: Mar. 23, 1936 | 3/23/1936 | See Source »

...rest of the picture belongs to Marie, Emilie, Cecile, Annette and Yvonne Dionne. Their entrance, while the sheriff helps their amazed father warm blankets, quilts, coats to wrap them in, is at once touching and hilarious. The picture sketches their early career through newsreel shots and ends in a grand climax especially made for the picture. This exhibits the Quintuplets singing, tipping over their chairs, groveling on the floor, beating trays with spoons and shouting until their nursery sounds like a backyard with a fox in it. By this time Dr. Luke has received both his hospital and the Order...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Mar. 16, 1936 | 3/16/1936 | See Source »

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