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Word: adds (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...church house for dancing lessons started by the rector's wife. She is Dorothy Deuel, famed in Broadway musical shows, before her marriage a year ago to Rev. Henry Scott Rubel, as one of a featured sister dancing team. She hopes, she said, to be able to add to the parish funds through her classes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: No Miserable Sinners | 12/3/1928 | See Source »

...Add these figures together and you have $7,700,000. And in ten years, another $7,700,000 will have been spent for the upkeep of these seven yachts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Yachting Millions | 12/3/1928 | See Source »

...exceptional activity in production of certain types of goods. . . ." These goods, he noted, included many luxuries, few necessities. He cited depression in industries producing food, clothing, coal, transportation. And a few blocks distant, President Daniel Willard of the great Baltimore & Ohio R. R. rose in the Hotel Commodore to add: "Since 1920, railroad earnings have fallen short of a 'fair' percentage...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Adjectives Squandered | 12/3/1928 | See Source »

...masculine names for female writers were once conventional necessities, they are now both unnecessary and undeceptive. They add, however, to what is known as feminine mystery, and for this reason women use them whenever possible. One woman, in fact, has no fewer than three aliases which she uses on various occasions, though always for the same reason. She is Mrs. Lily Moresby Beck, who writes fictional biography as E. Barrington; oriental philosophy as L. Adams Beck; and magazine articles as L . Moresby. Herewith reviews of two of her books and of some by other women...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Women Without Men | 11/26/1928 | See Source »

...biggest whoopee of the season, for special effort has been made to obtain an unusually well known young lady for hostess. The management shows its usual good judgment and happy fortune by the selection of the Empress Josephine for the all important position. Not only does she add the touch of royalty without which no ultra-fashionable gathering is complete, but she also represents the old conservatism of the Dean's office ante-room. Long noted for the maintenance of the older "good form" even in the midst all that makes night life, 1928 model, the Union management has made...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SONG AND DANCE | 11/24/1928 | See Source »

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