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Word: wiped (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1930
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...Moonlight seem anything like plausible. The supporting characters generally seem as puzzled as the audience about the proper attitude to be taken toward the portent they are witnessing. But the play again proves the dramatic theorem that if you want to make any audience blow its nose and wipe its eyes, have the principals sing the same songs and say the same lines in the last act as they have previously sung and said in their youth-way back in Act I. Nine Till Six is dubiously distinguished by the fact that it has an all-female cast. The scene...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Oct. 13, 1930 | 10/13/1930 | See Source »

...Bennett of Chicago : "This is the greatest hedging market in the world and we gladly receive orders from Canada, Russia or any other country. So-called farm relief is hopelessly ineffective and it looks like somebody is looking for an alibi. Of course we must have something to wipe our feet on and Russia makes a good doormat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HUSBANDRY: Soviet Shorts | 9/29/1930 | See Source »

Professor Tsankoff mortally hates and fears secret societies. Across his forehead is a jagged white scar, received during his Prime Ministry when a Bolshevist bomb, intended to wipe out him and his entire cabinet, burst and killed 200 Sofia citizens. Yet his dearest friend, a General Protogeroff, was a leader of one branch of the Imro. Converted by his friend. General Protogeroff publicly announced that he had abandoned violence as a policy, would limit himself to peaceful propaganda. Soon General Protogeroff was shot down as a lily-livered weakling. Left in sole command of the Imro was the sinister gunman...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BULGARIA: Imro & Umo | 8/25/1930 | See Source »

...three o'clock," cabled a precise correspondent, "the President was seen surreptitiously to wipe a tear from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: In the Corner | 8/4/1930 | See Source »

...children's club paralleling the Boy & Girl Scouts, was discussed, described. Young Pioneers are taught allegiance to the Red flag, which follows summer camps. Charles G. Wood, Commissioner of Conciliation in the Department of Labor, testified that at the Wing- dale, N. Y., camp customs include: 1) a slogan: "Wipe God from the skies;" 2) a table request: "God damn it, pass the bread." The Committee resolved to visit Wingdale and other Young Pioneer camps...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RADICALS: Red Hunt (cont.) | 7/28/1930 | See Source »

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