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Word: cushion (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Hospital in Tokyo. According to the Japanese law his body was washed and prepared for cremation. But not his white plume, not his badge of honor. To his death bed came his son and reverently clipped the mustaches away. They were bound with white silk, laid on a satin cushion in a separate casket and buried with all honor in a separate burial mound...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Badge of Honor | 5/8/1933 | See Source »

...Haven and Princeton, while what the men of Cambridge are wearing is neither interesting nor original. And who can wonder at this, when a hundred odd undergraduates, representing a cross-section of the University, chose such a dilapidated and absolutely worthless hat as rests upon its plush cushion in Boston as the Master Hat of Harvard, the result of a recent publicity stunt of a local humorous publication? The layman of the street, and his wife, stare at the apparition in its pose of state, and with a burst of derisive laughter say, "Oh! So that's what Harvard...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harvard Square Haberdashers Brand Students as Afraid To Wear Latest Styles -- Princeton and Yale Named Leaders | 3/24/1933 | See Source »

...spectators and, on the other side, the flags 100 yd. apart marking your course. They go by like pickets in a fence. You feel the accelerator trembling against your foot because, although the sand looks smooth, there are ridges in it. Your head is pushed back against a leather cushion. You notice that the few seconds it takes to cover a mile pass very slowly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: At Daytona | 3/6/1933 | See Source »

...Welker Cochran of San Francisco: the world's three-cushion billiard championship; by beating John Layton, ten times titleholder, 50 to 33, in the deciding match; at Chicago. It was the first three-cushion tournament Cochran, balkline champion in 1928, had ever entered. Said he, after winning: "I'm sure I'm going to prefer balkline...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Who Won, Feb. 13, 1933 | 2/13/1933 | See Source »

...hazy; there were a thousand eyes, and two red ears, a sharp grunt from the possessor of an abused bunion, and then the muffled howl of some lonely offstage Phantom. The Vagabond had faint reminiscences of a woman called Eliza, and he persevered. A rocker creaked, but the jaded cushion was anctuary. And the Vagabond answered a fool who wrote "Wouldst thou eat thy cake and have it?"--with a loud gulp...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Student Vagabond | 12/13/1932 | See Source »

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