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Word: wrings (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...should have misinterpreted his words seemed to Mr. Baldwin willful, diabolic. Like a large, well-meaning cow stung by a hornet, he charged into the House H of Commons, defied Mr. Churchill to wrest the party leadership from him, made a great speech, an English speech, a speech to wring tears from honest eyes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Baldwin, Churchill & Gandhi | 3/23/1931 | See Source »

...JACK* Cry all, "Alack!" And wring your hands in vain! SAM, JACK, and BEN, Cry all, "Amen!" In triplicate refrain! For you, I fear, This flying year By AMY are stir passed, Whom all the new Johnsonian crew Now welcome home at last...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Amy, C. B. E. | 8/18/1930 | See Source »

Worryin' Over You and You Will Come Back to Me (Brunswick)?Abe Lyman and every instrument in his California Orchestra wring dry two of the month's best tunes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: June Records | 6/9/1930 | See Source »

...with a proviso in the state law. They claimed that it was useless and cruel to kill the gamecocks by placing them in chambers filled with carbon monoxide gas, making them unfit to eat; that since gamecocks are carefully fed, housed and usually young, it would be kinder to wring their necks and donate the carcasses to the poor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Animals: S. P. C. A. v. Cocks | 3/10/1930 | See Source »

...cuckoo will not sing Surely I its neck shall wring...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JAPAN: Imperial Poetry | 2/10/1930 | See Source »

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