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Word: boredness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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Eddie Collins hides a heart of gold under a curt manner. He won't allow his young wife to continue as typist, because silently he remembers his work-ridden mother. Bored, Dot window-shops on Eddie's forty-a-week, but Eddie refuses to buy furniture "on time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: White Harlem | 4/16/1928 | See Source »

These youthful delegates have something of an advantage over the League itself. At Genoa the babel of languages must be transferred to one tongue; at Amherst, though many representatives will be bona fide Europeans or Asiatics, no reading knowledge of foreign languages is required--provided the pleasant possibilities of education...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE SWITZERLAND OF AMERICA | 4/5/1928 | See Source »

No composer and lyricist could have presented a happier and more seasonable combination than the delightful Victorian couple. The flowers that bloom in the spring, tra-la, are perfect in themselves, but when they are sung to Sir Arthur's music the result is the incomparable gaiety and freshness of...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE POETS PASTORAL | 3/21/1928 | See Source »

Heeney-Delaney. Flashy Jack Delaney wears a bathrobe made of violet velvet. He is an open classic boxer, a French Canadian, a former world's light-heavyweight champion. He lives in Bridgeport, Conn. Last week in Manhattan he threw his fast left upper cut again and again onto the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Clinches | 3/12/1928 | See Source »

Frank Arthur Vanderlip to a special partnership in Campbell, Starring & Co. Mr. Vanderlip was, from 1909 to 1919, president of the National City Bank in Manhattan, a post from which he retired to his estate at Scarborough-on-Hudson. Now 63 and bored with retirement, he is investing capital in...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Wall Street Partners | 1/2/1928 | See Source »

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