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Word: deservedness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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Where deserved and needed, the Hero Fund Commission accompanies its medals

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HEROES: Credit Given | 2/6/1928 | See Source »

Blossom Seeley as "Roxie" of Chicago is the "sex appeal" of the production. Vividly blond, with a Tanguay voice, and costumes to match, she is the most contagious if not the stellar light of the edition. Miss Grace Brinkley in the lead is very beautiful and very dumb. As an...

Author: By R. T. S., | Title: CRIMSON PLAYGOER | 1/26/1928 | See Source »

IT is a notable fact that three of the ablest living writers of English prose are women. Few are the men who can rival Willa Cather, Virginia Wolf, and Elizabeth Madox Roberts; their work possesses a calmness, a surety, a technical excellence which places them above the crowd and which...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MY HEART AND MY FLESH. By Elizabeth Madox Roberts. The Viking Press New York, 1927, $2.50. | 1/23/1928 | See Source »

Truth had the reputation of being stranger than fiction, but there can be little doubt that that honor was ill-deserved. From back pages of the daily journals, from "Whiz Bang", from the over-fertilized imaginations of the presumably witty, come combinations of words rarely before encountered. "Men Without Women...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THEY KNEW WHAT THEY WANTED | 1/14/1928 | See Source »

The Bill Mill. "And now, just a word before we adjourn. I want to congratulate this House on being the most efficient lawmaking body in existence. We have passed three vitally important pieces of legislation in less than two weeks. You have well deserved your holiday. . . ."

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CONGRESS: The House Week Jan. 2, 1928 | 1/2/1928 | See Source »

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