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Word: brownings (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Graham Brown) Scarsdale...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Aug. 15, 1927 | 8/15/1927 | See Source »

Please be more careful, TIME, for I cannot deny that your magazine is bright and clever and often a real pleasure. CECILIA GRAHAM BROWN...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Aug. 15, 1927 | 8/15/1927 | See Source »

Even this," says his grandmother, "has not cured him of his love of teasing them. He takes roguish delight in teasing even his own favorite cocker spaniel, Brown Mumbo...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUMANIA: Enfant Terrible | 8/15/1927 | See Source »

Died. The Right Rev. William Cabell Brown, 66, Bishop of the Protestant Episcopal Diocese of Virginia; of heart disease; in London...

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

...brief, the stories are like body-punches from a bully-boy with chunky arms: how Denna Wyoming, the Negro lion-tamer, got chewed up by the blind brown bear; how Lila, the strong woman, died lovelorn, and had the calliope and elephant cage for her funeral; how John Quincy Adams, a Negro clown, got bathed with boiling tar. Sometimes the bully-boy stops punching to strew around some casual obscenities; sometimes he just reflects, idly, wistfully, comically. At all times his book is as close to life as a stake-driver's undershirt. Admirers of realism, and Americana, must roundly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NON-FICTION: Sportsman | 8/8/1927 | See Source »

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