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Word: coats (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...neglect to notice the Page & Shaw, coat of arma over the Throne. That's to prove that, Elizabeth was the Candy...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Red-Headed Queen Features in Eighty-First Annual Pudding Riot--Chorus is Sylph-Like | 4/7/1927 | See Source »

...when he was overlord of mails, telephone and telegraph, when cables could be confiscated at his command. Josephus Daniels, Secretary of the Navy (1913-21), no longer master of Admirals, went back to the sleepy North Carolina town of Raleigh. There he shifted from cutaway to a well-worn coat, settled down to the life of a small-town editor that he had known from his 18th year. Newton Diehl Baker, Secretary of War (1916-21), that short, slim, dark man whom Democrats call the "fighting pacifist" is too good a speaker to withdraw from the public rostrum...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: CABINET PUDDING | 4/4/1927 | See Source »

...growled that Rennie had "neither chic nor chien" and who despised the chows as stupid foreigners, bristled at the news, but not in anger. A tremor passed down the lupine spine off big Boris, too, and that very afternoon he was so sentimental about Rennie's glossy brown coat and hang-down ears that Tessa, his Russian-temperamental fiancee, bit him on all four legs. Golden Toes had no idea what it was all about and disported himself as usual, taunting his sister, Poppit-"Runt-o! Runt you are!" he would bark-and tumbling over his own ears...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Fiction: Apr. 4, 1927 | 4/4/1927 | See Source »

...York Daily Mirror, which is only excelled in vulgarity by Mr. Macfadden's Daily Graphic, assumed the lofty mission. Beneath the two-inch headline, ''INDICTED!" the Daily Mirror published a full page photograph of Daughter Snyder supported by a nondescript woman in a fur coat and a man looking more like a pious bootlegger than an undertaker. Daughter Snyder's head was bent-her face completely hidden by her hat and her hand. The caption said: "The Daily Mirror will not print a photograph showing the face of the innocent child, but reproduces this picture...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Moral Lesson | 4/4/1927 | See Source »

...another case is a profusely illuminated diploma with which the University at Padua conferred the degree of Ph.D. upon Giacomo Pasquall on December 18, 1656. It contains a picture of the successful scholar together with a representation of his coat of arms, all surrounded by the most colorful decoration...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: TREASURE ROOM SHOWS VALUABLE BIBLIOPHILIA | 3/25/1927 | See Source »

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