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Word: princess (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Alastair Francis Buchan, 21, and John Buchcm, 27, Oxford-bred sons of Canada's Governor-General Lord Tweedsmuir (John Buchan); respectively as a Princess Louise's Dragoon Guard, a Governor-General's Footguard...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Names | 9/18/1939 | See Source »

Nazi Consul General at San Francisco, received a fake telegram demanding his resignation from swank Olympic Club. The fast-talking Consul General-trusted confidant of Adolf Hitler and good friend of Princess Stephanie Hohenlohe, who was publicly called a "dirty spy" in London's Ritz (TIME, Sept. 11)-resigned. Day later he was back in, but club members were reported getting up a true ouster bill this time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Sep. 18, 1939 | 9/18/1939 | See Source »

...devout in Warsaw went to mass. A few hours later they flocked to an international soccer match, were well pleased to see the Poles whip the Hungarians, 4-to-2. In bright red trolleys still carrying advertisements of German products, they rode to see Shirley Temple in The Little Princess. They bought lottery tickets in the tobacco shops. The best people still went to lunch at 2:30 and dragged it out until 6, sipped Kimmel at the streamlined Cafe Adria, laughed heartily over Geneva, a play by brash old Bernard Shaw about three dictators named Herr Battler, Signer Bombardone...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLAND: National Glue | 9/11/1939 | See Source »

...Cleaned up a corrupt city (by tearing the wings off the politicalboss's airplane); 2) rescued a pretty female reporter (by catching her in mid-air); 3) saved the life of a beautiful foreign princess (by sinking a submarine singlehanded) ; 4) foiled a plot on a king's life (by braining a bombster with a camera...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Superman | 9/11/1939 | See Source »

...ship can travel, to break through brick walls and leap skyscrapers. To keep his identity a secret he adopts another one: when not supermanhandling the wicked he is a bespectacled cub reporter named Clark Kent. The pretty female reporter is in love with Clark Kent and the beautiful foreign princess is in love with Superman. How to satisfy them both is a problem for Superman's creators...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Superman | 9/11/1939 | See Source »

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