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Word: bottomly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...York American's Christmas Fund, good people. Don't miss it. Famous musicians, jazz babies, black-bottom wrigglers, prima donnas perform as the freaks are led out. Get the most for your dollar...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Xmas, Inc. | 1/3/1927 | See Source »

...other things, the application of Irving Babbitt's canons of literary criticism to American civilization what Van Wyck Brooks is willing to call the greatest book of American criticism, and a book that will thrill and depress any self-conscious and curious-about-himself American down to the very bottom of his feet...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE STUDENT VAGABOND | 12/22/1926 | See Source »

...Senator Walter F. George of Georgia was the other speaker." This fact was noted at the bottom of a long column of the New York Times last week. And who could the speaker be, when one of the ablest Senators from the South was merely the other? The speaker was the head of the English Department of Vanderbilt University ?Dr. Edwin Mims by name. He is the author of a book* which raised a controversy. In his speech last week before the Southern Society in Manhattan, he reiterated his side of that controversy. It is now time, he said...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Hifalutin Talk | 12/20/1926 | See Source »

...other job that was wholly mine. No one ever took it away from me and there was no one else that I could wish it upon. I refer, of course, to filling the wood box in the kitchen. It sometimes seemed to me that it had no bottom...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FARMERS: Untidy | 12/13/1926 | See Source »

...however, at the bidding of their masters zealous to wring a last dollar from transportation. Last week this sailors' hell was frozen over-solid. In the West Neebish Channel, in the Rock Cut and in Mud Lake there were spots where the waters were solid to the channel bottom. Not a ship could pass through. More than one hundred, 66 of them bound down with 15,000,000 bushels of grain, had been caught in the freeze. From Detour to the "Soo" they stretched in long file, like sausages linked out over a gutter of lard. Reefered sailors...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Last Dollar | 12/13/1926 | See Source »

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