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Word: comely (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Life" leads the list of magazines sold for the second straight year, while next come "Look", "Colliers", "The Saturday Evening Post", and "Cosmopolitan...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Freshmen Shun Girlie Mags, News-Stand Figures Reveal | 1/10/1939 | See Source »

...must be difficult to pontificate on the daily happenings of this hectic would and one sympathizes with the columnist's tendency to formularize. But when the keynote speech of the head of the Democratic party is "simplified" into a Republican tract, the time has come to warn the ingenuous author that the reading public draws the line somewhere...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MR. LIPPMANN HAILS MR. ROOSEVELT | 1/10/1939 | See Source »

From later classes come Robert Woods Bliss '00, former Minister to Sweden, and former Ambassador to Argentina, and one President of the Harvard Club of Paris; Henry F. Atherton '05, President of the Allied Chemical and Dye Corporation; Edgar B. Stern '07, former President of the New Orleans Cotton Exchange; Francis Biddle '09, former Chairman of the National Labor Relations Board; Clarence B. Randall '12, former President of the Associated Harvard Clubs, vice-president of the Inland Steel Co.; and William Tudor Gardiner '14, ex-Governor of Maine, and former Overseer...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SALTONSTALL WILL BE CHIEF MARSHAL AT COMMENCEMENT | 1/10/1939 | See Source »

Like Henry James, the greatest of them, many U. S. expatriate writers have come to troubled old age, have shown uneasy consciences over their expatriation. But not Logan Pearsall Smith. Now 73, a lanky, aristocratic, pink-cheeked bachelor who has been called the most perfect living British mandarin, he has contentedly lived 50 years in France and England. His autobiography, Unforgotten Years (Little, Brown, $2.50), is witness that he finds in England a happiness as poised and honeyed as his perfected prose (in Trivia, Reperusals and Recollections...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Sanctification | 1/9/1939 | See Source »

Swimming activities in the Ivy League Saturday evening proved what early-season meets generally, prove--that lots of training and a few more meets are necessary before anyone can tell just how the League struggle will come...

Author: By Charles N. Pollak ii, | Title: GREENWOOD LOSES TO ULEN MERMEN 51 TO 24 | 1/9/1939 | See Source »

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