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Word: agented (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Women's Club of Howard University (Negro). The dusky clubwomen had to threaten to call the police to keep Negro newshawks and cameramen from crashing the party. In the confusion Mrs. Roosevelt found herself alone on the street after the affair. Gallantly Negro Edgar C. Brown, CCC press-agent who has a bushy Vandyke beard, squired her to the White House...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: The Roosevelt Week: Dec. 23, 1935 | 12/23/1935 | See Source »

Last week London's "Augur." a respected news-pundit so close to His Majesty's Government that irate Italians have called him "the British Agent Augur" wrote off his own bat essentially what Il Duce has been whistling, served up the incipient mutiny of British tars in the Mediterranean to the British public as one reason for Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin's consenting to dismemberment of Ethiopia. "Augur" pictured the disgruntled salts "cooped up in the narrow quarters of ships of all descriptions beginning to resent the tension of inactivity they are under without visible cause. They...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: War: Mutiny? | 12/23/1935 | See Source »

...Agent of Mercy...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "Nature and Task of Church" Subject of Archbishop's First Noble Lecture | 12/18/1935 | See Source »

...Church must also act as an agent of mercy, thus expressing on earth the Infinite Love of God, and as a final task, it should bring to the hearts of men spiritual redemption and all expression of the Love...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "Nature and Task of Church" Subject of Archbishop's First Noble Lecture | 12/18/1935 | See Source »

Figure, then, the distress of our hero, for he was awakened to the dreary world of fact by a gentle rocking of his bed, and the first sight to meet his bleary eyes was a grinning agent of Uncle Sam, dressed in blue. Young men in such positions are not particularly logical or observant. Therefore it was only after several terrifying seconds that our hero observed that his strange guest was only a mailman tendering a special delivery letter. Ever since he has been biterly cursing the paternalism of this administration, which makes mailmen so solicitous...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Crime | 12/17/1935 | See Source »

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