Search Details

Word: putting (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

...Harry Hershfield, Manhattan cartoonist (Abie the Agent), went Charter No. 1 and chairmanship of the New York City chapter of the Grouch Club of America. Grouch Hershfield obligingly posed for news photographers, put his worst face forward...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Dec. 25, 1939 | 12/25/1939 | See Source »

Mayor Hartsfield urged every Atlanta woman and maid to put on hoop skirts and pantalets, appealed to every Atlanta male to don tight trousers and a beaver, sprout a goatee, sideburns and Kentucky colonel whiskers. He also requested citizens not to tear off the clothes of visiting movie stars, as happened in Kansas at the premiere of Dodge City...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: G With the W | 12/25/1939 | See Source »

...good health, his heart weakened by years of hard work and good living, Broun was close to death. As he fought his fever in a dim room high above the Hudson River, in the Presbyterian Hospital's Harkness Pavilion, he could reflect that he had at least put all his varied affairs in order...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Last Column | 12/25/1939 | See Source »

...Continental, Editor Kelly gave exclusive contracts for five years with four canneries, which use some $1,000,000 worth of cans a year. That means about $750,000 of new business annually for the canmaker, for three of the canneries were new customers. In return, Continental Can agreed to put up a $500,000 can factory. The canners figure on saving $100,000 a year on freight charges by having a factory in Walla Walla. The town figures the new plant will provide a yearly payroll...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANUFACTURING: Father of Peas | 12/25/1939 | See Source »

...curly, cherubic Moylan Sisters, Peggy Joan, 5, and Marianne, 7, are radio veterans (two years) who chirrup in close, cricket harmony Sunday afternoons over NBC for Thrive, a dog food ("We feed our doggie Thrive, he's very much alive-o"). Last Sunday Peggy Joan and Marianne put their brown heads together and told the world just what they wanted from Santa...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: To Santa | 12/25/1939 | See Source »

| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | Next