Word: coverse
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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GENTLEMEN PREFER BLONDS - Anita Loos, Boni, Liveright ($1.75). These confidences should be read in connection with that diverting hoax, The Diary of a Young Lady of Fashion in the Year 1764-65, by "Cleone Knox" (TIME, Feb. 15). They are those of an unamed young lady who was acquitted of...
"Little John likes raspberry jam and he knows his mother has a jar on the top shelf of the pantry. When his mother goes out, he gets it and covers his face with it. She catches him and tells him if he does it again she'll break his neck...
The Manhattan banking firms of Speyer & Co. and J. & W. Seligman & Co. now control the St. Louis-San Francisco Railway Co. (the Frisco). In the past two months, they have quietly been buying up a substantial interest in the Rock Island & Pacific Railway Co. (the Rock Island), an interest which...
The Second Stage was the strike. It covers roughly the period from Sept. 1 to Jan. 1. During this period the miners went without some $113,850,000 in pay, and the operators lost the profit on some 55,000,000 tons of anthracite that was not mined, meanwhile having...
This period has seen no painter with such a brave conceit. Some critics have thought that John Singer Sargent might have had it, but evidently he did not, for his paintings have begun to decay. Not noticeablyless. Sargent had a way of using bitumen and laying thin pigments on heavier...