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Word: bumpers (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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Editor Lorimer (Saturday Evening Post) prized rare glassware as he left the Majestic. Particularly proud was he of a drinking glass engraved with the words, "To Reverend Dr. Swift, Dean of St. Patrick's Cathedral." Below, an engraved likeness of the Dean. Below, "In a Bumper...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Comings & Goings: Aug. 13, 1928 | 8/13/1928 | See Source »

...recovery of Italy and prompt payment of her war debts. Ceaseless and ever potent must be Finance Minister Mosconi's fecund activity. Inspiring to him, last week, was the fact that Italy's germinal grain fields are now sprouting and flourishing with an activity announced to promise bumper crops. So impetuously potent is the grain, this summer, that demands for agricultural laborers have reduced the number of Italians unemployed from 447,021 last January to 429,211 last month...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Fecund Activity | 8/6/1928 | See Source »

DRACULA-A human fiend in wolf's clothing makes whoopee with a bumper of blood (TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: Best Plays in Manhattan: May 14, 1928 | 5/14/1928 | See Source »

Perfection Heater & Manufacturing Co., of Cleveland, makes heaters for taxicabs and luxurious motor cars. Its assets, patents, trademarks and physical properties were bought last week by the Eaton Axel & Spring Co., also of, Cleveland. The equipment will be transferred to Eaton's bumper factory...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: More Mergers: Feb. 27, 1928 | 2/27/1928 | See Source »

...Such as "graveyard shift," "nixie," "bumper." "logs," "reds." "Mother Hubbard...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CABINET: Fashions in Statements | 11/14/1927 | See Source »

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