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Word: abodeely (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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Douglas Ludlow Elliman, potent Manhattan realtor, through whom (Douglas L. Elliman & Co.) or his competitor-brother (Lawrence B. Elliman of Pease & Elliman Inc.) many a smart Manhattanite obtains his abode, returned from a European yachting trip, reported on the foreign housing situation. His points: in London the trend is toward...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Sep. 2, 1929 | 9/2/1929 | See Source »

Last week God failed to preserve other Methodist lots on the opposite side of the street. These and the house on them were the property of Bishop James Cannon Jr. of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South. The government wanted the site for the new home of the Supreme Court of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICAL NOTES: A Bishop's House | 8/19/1929 | See Source »

*"Blind baggage" is unpaid-for railway travel, usually under freight cars. Members of the brotherhood must pay no railway fare during the first year of their membership, must have no regular abode, must work with their hands (no "white collar" jobs).

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Jun. 24, 1929 | 6/24/1929 | See Source »

The Heroine is despondent. She sits at the window of her drab abode, contemplating suicide. The organ of the cinema house plays Tchaikovsky's Pathétique or something equally lugubrious and appropriate. But, hark! A knock on the door! The organist changes quickly into some gay lilt by...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Difference | 6/24/1929 | See Source »

For three years past, the assistant organist of that orchestra had been one Helen Jean Moyer, 29. Last week she kept looking for another job, but found none. She went to her drab abode and sat by the window, despondent. She thought about suicide. The "talkies" have come, but Organist...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Difference | 6/24/1929 | See Source »

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