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Word: contentedness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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Since dictators are proverbially above honor, dueling, and stooping to answer open letters, General Primo de Rivera contented himself, last week, with observing to reporters: "My position does not permit me to be at the disposition of persons who, thinking themselves damaged by my statements, would seek to involve me...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Honor Sullied | 6/25/1928 | See Source »

Reflecting that all good things come slowly, that Rome was not built in a day, that patience is a virtue, that duty comes before ambition and business before pleasure, etc., etc., Candidate Smith passed a busy and contented last week in his executive mansion at Albany. He functioned in different...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: The Brown Derby | 6/18/1928 | See Source »

The dark unrest that lurks at the bottom of the coal industry, even at its best, broke out again last week in Mather, Pa. The Mather mine, owned and operated by Pickands, Mather & Co. of Cleveland, is one of the model mines of the U. S. In its shafts are...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: At Mather, Pa. | 5/28/1928 | See Source »

Contented Australian Nationalists took the opposite view and praised their smart Prime Minister, sleek Stanley Melbourne Bruce, who is so modern that he has a private airplane garage in his basement and frequently flies forth.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AUSTRALIA: Seven Ships | 5/7/1928 | See Source »

And there you have it. If you think you can be amused (which we were) by Mitzi's impersonation of a little girl injected with a few good cracks, an evening at the Shubert will repay you. If you are a Scollay Square aesthete, or a devotee of Max Reinhardt...

Author: By J. H. S., | Title: THE CRIMSON PLAYGOER | 5/3/1928 | See Source »

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