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Word: answers (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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Will you kindly give space to this letter, and courteously answer the charge of my friends. Are you or not interested in promoting Atheism...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Aug. 1, 1927 | 8/1/1927 | See Source »

...always successful in establishing personal communication with the President or Mrs. Coolidge. But Miss Angie Conrad of Rapid City never has trouble in securing the attention of Mrs. Coolidge. Miss Conrad is an employee of the meat market at which Mrs. Coolidge buys provisions. And when Lodge attendants answer the telephone and hear that "Schuster's Meat Market" is talking, they know that the call should be put through. With Miss Ellen Riley,. White House housekeeper, still on sick leave, Mrs. Coolidge has been doing the presidential family shopping...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: The Coolidge Week: Aug. 1, 1927 | 8/1/1927 | See Source »

...answer is suggested by an engagement ring still worn by Mile. Vacarescu, now an aged spinster. The ring was given her by Ferdinand in the '80s, when he was but a prince and she was the favorite lady-in-waiting to the late Queen Elizabeth of Rumania, better known by her pen name, "Carmen Silva." Queen Elizabeth, sympathizing with the lovers, permitted them to be constantly together. When news of this came to strict, arbitrary King Carol of Rumania, he broke off the affair by the ruthless step of banishing Mile. Vacarescu from Rumania, and later sending Queen Elizabeth into...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUMANIA: Michael I | 8/1/1927 | See Source »

...Soviets, he said, the U. S. unanimously endorsed. Dr. Cadman, a less intense, a more mundane orator, had quips and fancies to offer at St. Martin's Church in Trafalgar Square, London. He opened a "question box," a sort of forum during which he offered to answer pontifically questions thrown at him viva voce. Verbally he did what he has been doing in the columns of the New York Herald Tribune* for more than a year. Some Cadmanswers, some Cadmonitions: ¶Rotary gatherings "are not intellectual triumphs. They are daily lunches." He has often attended them. ¶ "The evolution...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: In London | 7/25/1927 | See Source »

...makes her entrance riding down the aisle on a white Arabian horse. Her locally famed "girlies" rush out among the audience, pelting them with cotton balls. Miss Guinan herself is in the aisles as often as on the stage, shaking hands, bantering wisecracks, kissing bald pates that clearly answer for her rouged caresses. While she is changing costumes, vaudevillians take the stage-Jans & Whalen of the Keith circuit, Laura Wilkinson of the Body obviously Beautiful, singers of blues. There is a heavy tragic skit in which Texas weeps real tears, thanks the audience with honest sobs for their applause. Intimate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Jul. 18, 1927 | 7/18/1927 | See Source »

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