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Word: afoot (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Happening upon a rich uncle, he gets a job in the avuncular collar factory at Lycurgus, N. Y. His own neckwear improves. He sniffs wealth and position, smears oil on his hair and his manners. He puts afoot a promising campaign for the hand, body and prestige of Sondra Finchley, social princess of Lycurgus. While that plan is maturing, he cannot resist indulging in one of the factory girls, Roberta Alden. The physiological consequence is normal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FICTION: U. S. Tragedy | 1/25/1926 | See Source »

...Afoot and light-hearted I take to the open road...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Arts: Notes, Nov. 30, 1925 | 11/30/1925 | See Source »

There have been three major plans afoot for paying permanent tribute to the name and memory of Woodrow Wilson...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Played for Suckers? | 11/23/1925 | See Source »

Foolish the farmer who, having dug into his pocket to buy a horse, leaves the beast munching in his stable and trudges to town afoot...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Excuses | 10/12/1925 | See Source »

...dauntless four and a few followers proceeded afoot between lines of police to the Imperial Hotel, singing, as they went, the forbidden "Internationale." The four took rooms; the police took rooms opposite. A guard was set around the hotel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JAPAN: Difficult | 10/5/1925 | See Source »

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