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Word: arms (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...would have gone up to the sea with the Rhine under my arm. But Germans, not Frenchmen, were living on the Rhine territory. If we had begun any annexing, other powers would have followed our example. It is easy to make war. It is more difficult to keep territories than to conquer them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Clemenceau | 12/2/1929 | See Source »

...knew women were smoking, to allow a woman in the unholy precincts of a cigaret advertisement would be to affront U. S. womanhood. But tobacco competition grew hot. One by one the cigaret-makers began introducing women in their advertisements. At first it was just a woman's arm and hand holding a cigaret (Marlboro). Then it was women present, though not smoking, at smoking bouts. When a Chesterfield advertisement appeared in which an entrancing female was made to say, "Blow some my way," it seemed the peak in risque outspokenness had been attained. But now the landscape...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Smoke-Crusade | 11/25/1929 | See Source »

...making a delivery over across the river; I got out of my car and had a couple of packages under my arm. I didn't see any one around, but all of a sudden a motorcycle cop drove up behind me and says, 'What've you got there?' I saw there wasn't any use arguing so I told him. I said 'O. K. I'm licked'. But he says, 'Wait a minute there, don't go so fast;; let's see what we can do about this. Go ahead back and get in your...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Bootlegger Describes Interesting Incidents of a Very Adventurous and Hazardous Trade | 11/23/1929 | See Source »

...messages from him to Washington have not been rare. If Statesman Stimson had any intention of suggesting that Ambassador Dawes economize on cable tolls, he put it aside when the Ambassador, all geniality, asked him to put up at the U. S. embassy during the London conference. Arm-in-arm they went off to Woodley, the Stimson estate, for luncheon. Secretary Stimson repeating to all-comers: "It is always such a joy to see General Dawes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CABINET: Parley Preparations | 11/18/1929 | See Source »

Basso Feodor Chaliapin boomed a Russian folksong at her with an arm around her so that she could feel his "vibrations...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Mencken's Huneker | 11/18/1929 | See Source »

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