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Word: comely (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...American medical student at the University in Freiburg I come in contact every day with Germans. Although our conversation concerns principally subjects connected with medicine, it sometimes drifts to politics. Naturally I should like to be able to defend my country's democratic ideals, especially now in regard to the Jewish question. The reason why I cannot is adequately illustrated by a recent article in TIME (Dec. 5): A young man, not a whole lot older than Grynszpan, was said to have committed a crime. The only witness was an elderly lady-the very lady whose life and property...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jan. 9, 1939 | 1/9/1939 | See Source »

...mistaken, most of the above come out of the English thieves' jargon; maybe I am mistaken...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jan. 9, 1939 | 1/9/1939 | See Source »

...Washington widow, for the wife of a New York surgeon and for the Dean of Bryn Mawr College, the Washington society news was nostalgic last week. Alice Roosevelt (Longworth) in 1902, Ethel Roosevelt (Derby) in 1908 and Helen Taft (Manning) in 1910 were the last three girls to "come out" in the White House. Last week that mansion was again turned upside down for a debut. The lucky girl was Eleanor Roosevelt, niece of Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt-daughter of her brother Grade Hall Roosevelt by his first wife, now Mrs. John Cutter of Dedham, Mass. She had already...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WOMEN: At the White House | 1/9/1939 | See Source »

With Captain R. Bennett Forbes, Gaylord Dillingham, and either Ben Dillingham or Bronson Rumsey in the lineup, the Crimson squad is to play a six-chukker game against the Satirev horsemen, who come from Boston and Andover...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: POLO TEAM WILL FACE SATIREV OUTFIT HERE | 1/6/1939 | See Source »

This should not be the end of the matter. It is not hard to visualize even more "champeenships of champeenships" to come. There is one consideration, though These post-season "classics" may run into the spring practice program...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE CRIME | 1/5/1939 | See Source »

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