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Word: aright (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...series of 138 woodcuts, of which every picture helps to tell the story, the allegory of an artist's life is unfolded. The pictures are obvious enough, and placed in such obvious sequence that even a novel-browser may read both tale and fable aright. The artist comes to a strange land, gets into difficulties from which he is rescued by a mysterious masked figure. End of Part I. The artist comes to a city, paints pictures, is taken up by a patron, lionized, supplied with a mistress. End of Part II. He is happy with her until...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Novel Without Words | 11/25/1929 | See Source »

...today's game. The Vagabond has nothing to say before breakfast on that score. Besides you can read all about the game in Monday's CRIMSON Besides, and what is more important, the Vagabond took up his present occupation in, if he remembers aright. 1926. Anyhow, it was just after the Florida land boom...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Student Vagabond | 11/2/1929 | See Source »

Strongest stomached English sophisticates opined that for once the Lord Chamberlain had suppressed wisely and aright...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Englishman was Eaten | 1/7/1929 | See Source »

...lived to be twice victorious. If Smith runs much ahead of Cox and Davis he need not despair of doing the same. He is younger now than Jackson was the first time he ran and equally the idol of his followers. The Digest poll, when read aright, falls far short of showing that Smith will not be president of the United States...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Campaigns and Candidates | 11/1/1928 | See Source »

...there. It was a non-political speech, unless the following was politically construed: "The outlook of the world today is for the greatest era of commercial expansion in history. The rest of the world will become better customers. . . . This incoming flood of prosperity, if it be guided aright, will enable you to add further to the beauty of this city and the comfort of its people." ¶ The welcoming ceremony, delayed a week because of Mrs. Hoover's father's death (TIME, July 30), was by no means the most exacting part of the Beaver...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Advance Agent | 8/6/1928 | See Source »

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