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Word: caress (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Long Beach, Calif., the wife of Trombonist Charles E. Stacy listened at her radio box while far away he broadcast his best trombone solo, "The Sweetest Story Ever Told." The notes were like a lover's last lingering, farewell caress. That is what they were, for he died on the way home, of heart failure...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Sweetest | 11/1/1926 | See Source »

...back on his small, sharp nose. The bustle roused by several hundred enthusiastic Willys-Overland dealers convening at Toledo was slightly disheveling to this trim 53-year-oldster† who "builds automobiles, lives automobiles and talks automobiles." There was, however, no weariness in that long-lipped smile, which can caress a lackadaisical dealer into a "gogetter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: New Cars | 6/28/1926 | See Source »

...there was a modest grocery store. Eli, turned carpenter, could pore over his Scriptures late evenings and during the long strikes, still tracking down the far-to-seek revelation of his God. The Lord blessed such piety with a solemn little son, Reuben, content to, learn his catechisms and caress Miriam, his kosher white...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Atonement* | 8/10/1925 | See Source »

...invitation, "Oh, R. Y. O. in connection with the feature of the entertainment at Detroit. Some who attend undoubtedly have cellars which were legally acquired more than five years ago but "Its transportation is hereby forbidden". Others are presumably invited to patronize bootleggers, who are mostly aliens pursuers a caress of crime Colonel William Harvard said the other day that respectable citizens have become the accomplices "of a lot of rotten criminals in order to get a drink". Between Maplewood and Newark there is a street of houses, every one worth over thirty thousand dollars and all occupied by people...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SCORES B. Y. O. NOTE FROM HARVARD CLUBS | 4/29/1924 | See Source »

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