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Word: desiree (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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If restlessness and an eager desire to experiment are tokens of returning health, then collegiate debating has shaken itself free of the lethargic morans associated with the post war years. For several months Harvard has been experimenting cautiously and with some success with the Debating Union. Now Dartmouth and Yale...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: TONIC FOR DEBATING | 3/8/1927 | See Source »

Whatever can have been your purpose in the use of the introductory sentence* I cannot fathom, unless it were a desire to be "smart. . . ."

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Mar. 7, 1927 | 3/7/1927 | See Source »

Polly of Hollywood is determined to be a musical novelty. It burlesques the cinema in several moderately boisterous skits. It insists upon novelty by presenting a horse that Charlestons, by leading onto the stage a bull with a ring in his soft nose, by allowing trapeze acrobats to fly about...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: New Plays: Mar. 7, 1927 | 3/7/1927 | See Source »

The Nestoroff, the woman is called. Before and after Giorgio Mirelli she has had many men. Her proclivity for throwing her very beautiful body away on gutter types right after it has been worshiped by refined slaves, suggests degeneracy to most of her critics. The impassive Gubbio thinks not. He...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Fiction: Mar. 7, 1927 | 3/7/1927 | See Source »

¶ Napoleon's intense desire for a legitimate heir* caused him to divorce Josephine, marry Marie Louise of Austria. Said he, on hearing of the prolific reproductivity of Marie Louise's ancestors: "That's the kind of a womb I want to marry." Marie Louise bore him a son, L...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Non-Fiction | 2/28/1927 | See Source »

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