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Word: abouts (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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"For ordinary expenses, fruit, ginger, citron and so forth, I spend about 25c a day. Too much! But I am going to quit. . . . The food is not so good, so we chip in a shilling a day for-Oh! raisins in the boiled rice and so on. . . ."

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Golden Hatchet | 8/26/1929 | See Source »

Pale, flabby-fleshed, glisteningly bald Dr. Gustav Stresemann played at the Hague Conference last week an astute, unobtrusive dickering game for Germany. The quarrel over whether Great Britain should get a larger share of the Reparations "sponge cake" (TIME, Aug. 19) was the German Foreign Minister's big chance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: The Hague Haggle | 8/26/1929 | See Source »

The French answer to Britain and Germany has been voiced by alert Jean Tillier, assistant director of the French Line in the U. S. and Canada: "We are going to build a super-fast ship. I won't tell her speed, but she will be very much larger and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Super-Oceanic | 8/26/1929 | See Source »

Miss Mary van Renssalaer Cogswell, plump, blonde Manhattan socialite, accompanied by tall, brunette Mrs. Mabel Satterlee Ingalls, niece of John Pierpont Morgan, managed to enter Soviet Russia last month without a visa. Last week she got out of Bolshevikland without even a passport, sold to Hearst papers the romping diary...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: Soviets Prefer Brunettes | 8/26/1929 | See Source »

"I don't mind about the passport-I hope they keep me here for months, and I don't mind about the money, but I wept all yesterday for my bracelets, not for their value but because I liked them so much."

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: Soviets Prefer Brunettes | 8/26/1929 | See Source »

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