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Word: brush (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...presented themselves at the White House last week were: Alanson B. Houghton, Ambassador to the Court of St. James's; S. Parker Gilbert, Agent General of Reparations; Senator Watson of Indiana with the Glee Club of Notre Dame University; 50 house-to-house salesmen of the Fuller Brush Co., to handshake...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: The White House Week: Jan. 17, 1927 | 1/17/1927 | See Source »

...armed themselves with clubs, flocked to Fort Morgan, ranged in a wide-flung line over the prairie, herded 2,000 wild rabbits-pestilential to crops-into a wire enclosure, waded among them, slew all, eagerly looked forward to another field day the "mammoth bunny slaughter of the Denver Post Brush Civic Club, occasion for an annual holiday in northeastern Colorado...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Jan. 3, 1927 | 1/3/1927 | See Source »

...type planes (see AERONAUTICS). Said young Mr. Ford: "If business conditions continue good I believe there will be a widespread demand by the people for the renomination of the President." Richard Washburn Child, one-time (1921-24) Ambassador to Italy, who is firmly convinced that "public opinion will brush aside third-term objections." Patrick E. Crowley, president of the New York Central Lines, who informed Mr. Coolidge that "the railroad business is good." Ralph H. Cameron, senator from Arizona, who later told the press: "Speaking for myself, I am certain that no one can defeat President Coolidge ... if he should...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: At White Pine Camp- Aug. 9, 1926 | 8/9/1926 | See Source »

...Residents of the Panhandle region in Texas are known as " sandslappers" because of the frequent gesture necessary to brush sand from their eyes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WOMEN: Governesses | 8/2/1926 | See Source »

Take in one hand plain, unmedicated soap, and in the other a clean tooth brush. Lather the brush. Open the mouth. Scrub...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: 4 out of 5 v. 1 out of 20 | 8/2/1926 | See Source »

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