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Word: lollypops (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...medium used only an aluminum megaphone. When she held it to her breast, Garland heard a high squeaky voice. He rigged up an amplifier, shut the medium in a room where she could not hear what he asked the spirits. Once he put a lollypop in her mouth so she could not talk for them. The spirits squeaked on. Garland conversed with ghosts of Henry Fuller, an old friend, Conan Doyle, Mark Twain, Jack London ("Why not Columbus?" asked one irritated ghost). Violet Parent and an assortment of dead Indians, padres and conquistadors, who told him where more crosses could...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Spirited | 5/22/1939 | See Source »

Fascism offers the security and irresponsibility of mass action to a people whose traditional allegiance has been shattered, and replaced by disillusionment, Pettee said. "It could be slipped over on us like a lollypop to a hungry...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fascism Coming To United States, Is Pettee Forecast | 10/26/1938 | See Source »

...Lollypop. In London and Paris, as well as in Berlin and Rome, statesmen expected bilateral pacts now to be swiftly made between France & Italy, Britain & Germany, after which they looked for the final effort to conclude a Four-Power Pact. II Duce was said to have got emotional Adolf Hitler all excited in Florence about a grandiose, perfectly vague project for "world Fascist-Nazi fraternization," this being Benito Mussolini's parting lollypop for the Führer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY-ITALY: $20,000,000 Visit | 5/16/1938 | See Source »

Some words Carol knows: lemonade, candy, ice, cream, lollypop, cigar, cigaret, tobacco, pants, pajamas, locust, katydid, Mae West, come, up, see, me, some, time, buzz, rhumba, one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, nine, ten, seventeen, hippopotamus, lavatory, belch, sneeze, Jesus, pop, eye, goofy, flush, toilet, groceries, fruit, nuts, nertz...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Prodigious Crop | 8/26/1935 | See Source »

...excess of zeal they lured Roman Catholic children. Angered, the Club of Our Lady of the Assumption sent a delegation to the New Bedford Chief of Police, who immediately reprimanded Rev. R. J. Kirkland, pastor of the Church of the Nazarene. Pastor Kirkland agreed to stop the lollypop luring, had never approved of it anyway. But Pastor Kirkland felt satisfied. In the twelfth week of the contest, attendance at his Sunday School totaled 1,373, to Maiden...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Lollypopularity | 2/8/1932 | See Source »

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