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Word: butted (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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New Jersey's Teagle. Huge is the Standard of New Jersey organization, but not too huge for the personal domination of Walter Clark Teagle. Mr. Teagle is 6 feet, 2 inches tall and weighs 230 pounds. When he opens the door of the company's offices, his presence is instantly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: No Oil Compromise | 12/9/1929 | See Source »

The curriculum was set up with two courses, a stiff educational one to prepare "career girls" for the Bryn Mawr examinations, a less strenuous one in letters and the arts for misses planning to take their places in Society. But each & every girl must pass an examination to get into...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Foxcroft's Accolade | 12/9/1929 | See Source »

Fifty Million Frenchmen is a jaunty, jingling tour of Paris which pays no attention whatsoever to Gothic traceries, the Louvre or the sombre tomb of the Emperor. At one point the sightseers pass the monumental Church of the Madeleine but even their "Hallelujah!" is syncopated. Clad in the fulsome but...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Dec. 9, 1929 | 12/9/1929 | See Source »

This is the legend which appealed most strongly to Poet Lorenzo da Ponte when Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart asked him for an operatic subject.* Da Ponte was busy at the time with commissions from Emperor Joseph II, but working furiously, inspired by snuff, Tokay and his landlady's 16-year-old...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Don Giovanni | 12/9/1929 | See Source »

The revival was a gala occasion. A throat affliction prevented Soprano Rosa Ponselle from appearing as Donna Anna. But Leonora Corona, pretty, fat-cheeked Texan, sang creditably if not brilliantly a role she had had only four weeks to prepare. Other interpretations were careful, unexciting. Italian Ezio Pinza made a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Don Giovanni | 12/9/1929 | See Source »

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