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Word: browses (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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His lady campaigners arched their eye brows approvingly. A newsgatherer for the potent, manager-favoring Cleveland Plain Dealer felt embarrassed, sneaked out of the room for a smoke. He had been politely informed that it was not proper to use tobacco before so many ladies. Pickles, sandwiches, coffee, radishes and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICAL NOTES: Cleveland Idyll | 9/2/1929 | See Source »

In Lakeview, Chicago district, a boy, seven, fell off his front steps, was taken to a hospital. "What's your name?" asked the interne. Said the youngster: "Orange." A nurse brought him an orange. ''What's your name?" asked she. "Apple," replied the seven-year-old...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Jul. 15, 1929 | 7/15/1929 | See Source »

In the hot glare of studio lamps that brought unseemly beads of perspiration to the delegates' potent brows they signed the two documents alphabetically according to countries. Germany (Allemague) first signed the French copy, Belgium the English. For the benefit of the sound photographers, the obliging delegates scratched extra loudly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: By the People's Advice | 6/17/1929 | See Source »

Those who knew him well detected in it a hidden sweetness; but against the stranger it burned and glared, and guarded all avenues of approach. Startled it was like the eye of a wild animal, and penetrating. "peering through the portals of the brain like the brass cannon." Over it...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Idiosyncracies of Professor Sophocles, Famous Harvard Scholar, of Last Century Narrated by Professor Palmer | 5/14/1929 | See Source »

A clipping from the Tufts Weekly appearing in another portion of these columns announces the most spicy solution of the compulsory Chapel problem to be found in recent collegiate annals. No longer will puzzled Deans knot their brows over the baffling question of just how religious Mr. So-and-so...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ALL GOD'S CHILLUN GET A's | 2/12/1929 | See Source »

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