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Word: opening (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Court of St. James's. After a quick change Mr. Kennedy zipped to the White House. It was before 10 a. m., when Franklin Roosevelt goes to the Executive Office. Bobbing in his blue uniform, 68-year-old Negro Butler Charles Green grinned a welcome, threw open both White House doors to grinning Mr. Kennedy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Smiling Sphinx | 12/18/1939 | See Source »

...Authorized Federal Loan Administrator Jesse H. Jones to open a $10,000,000 credit for Finland through the Export-Import Bank and RFC. With this first material U. S. aid, the Finns may buy "agricultural surpluses and other civilian supplies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Smiling Sphinx | 12/18/1939 | See Source »

...house was quiet. Mr. Doell went through the carefully furnished rooms on the lower floor. Without pausing to admire the objets d'art from the Orient and the Near East, Mr. Doell mounted the stairs. Through the open door of a bedroom he noted a rumpled bed, a blue bathrobe flung carelessly over it, on the floor a pair of men's large bedroom slippers. He peeked into a study packed with books, filing cabinets, a globe. On the floor an Assyrian water pipe, two-thirds-filled, caught...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Case of the Bedroom Slippers | 12/18/1939 | See Source »

...lyrics, very little legs, and custard pies in the face, plays the part of a Broadway star who comes to Hollywood at the instigation of Ameche. Though she marries the wrong man first, he contrives to drive into a telegraph pole at the crucial movement, thus leaving the road open to dour Don. In spite of an overdose of Ameche and the triteness of the plot, Buster Keaton and the Cops make it worth dodging through the maniac drivers on Harvard Square...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Moviegoer | 12/16/1939 | See Source »

When the third annual Guardian Conference meets in the Winthrop House Senior Common Room this morning to hear President Conant open the discussion on propaganda, it will be the beginning of what promises to be the best of the series of meetings with a star-studded collection of authors, professors, and journalists participating...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Prominent Group To Start Guardian Today | 12/15/1939 | See Source »

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