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Word: clog (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...little Dutch orphan, persecuted by the narrow village as a tiny vagabond, who wins a prize and recognition with his drawing just as the snow mounts higher and higher around his ragged clothes. He shows his amazingly facile versatility by running through all emotions, by doing a clog dance and even by doing a Julian Eltinge in girl's clothes. But his inimitable naturalness and naivete are being crowded out by stereotyped gestures and muggings, such as no small 'boy does except at an amateur entertainment. Jackie is now at the difficult age when...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Picture Apr. 21, 1924 | 4/21/1924 | See Source »

...most literary clog-petted by Chesterton, kissed by Galsworthy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Point With Pride: Apr. 7, 1924 | 4/7/1924 | See Source »

...dinner music will be furnished by Moynahan's five piece orchestra. Directly afterwards there will be singing by R. P. Bullard '24 and B. S. Cogan '23. Then Mr. Yarrick, a professional magician, will give an exhibition of his art. The last number on the program will be a clog dance by J. H. L. Moynahan...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Union Xmas Dinner Tonight | 12/19/1923 | See Source »

...music will be furnished by Moynahan's five piece orchestra. Directly afterwards there is to be singing by R. P. Bullard '23 and B. S. Cogan '23. Then Mr. Yarrick, a professional magician, will give an exhibition of his art. The last number on the program will be a clog dance by T. B. Moynahan...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: UNION PLANS BIG CHRISTMAS DINNER FOR NEXT WEDNESDAY | 12/12/1923 | See Source »

...vice-president of a New York City bank he states that no college man succeeds in business who would not have succeeded anyway. What is more, a course in Liberal Arts may even dull the business acumen and clog the mind with things not needed. But that is as it should be according to Mr. Emerson, for college trains not for life but for living. The four "wasted" years should not pack the mind with encyclopedic facts or change the brain into an animated Spanish dictionary. Instead they should serve to pile up a store, a credit account of satisfaction...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FRIENDS--AND A HOBBY | 4/10/1922 | See Source »

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