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Word: desiree (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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Then Mr. Kent plunged into the enigma of the man in the White House, said: "As to Mr. Coolidge wanting another term, that is too obvious to argue. No President ever liked the White House better than he. No President ever wanted to hold on to it more. When he...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Talk | 1/3/1927 | See Source »

Two months ago a limp figure, bleeding from ear, nose, jaw, forehead, was carried to a Manhattan hospital, almost dead. They registered him as Lawrence Buermeyer, instructor in philosophy at New York University. He had been discussing philosophy with his friend since college days at Princeton, Joseph Carson Jr. of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: P.B.K.T.B. | 1/3/1927 | See Source »

Fascismo was predominantly Republican until the march on Rome in 1922 when a compromise was engineered to bring the Royalists into camp. Mussolini, once a Republican, has scarcely shown himself a Royalist, however much he has become an Imperialist. He may logically desire a reversion to the awful Roman Republic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Cross or Fasciol | 12/27/1926 | See Source »

For the Marshal to desire is to act. The Sejm was not in session, but there might be some politicians skulking in the Parliament building. There were. A committee, sparsely attended, was mulling drowsily over the War Department appropriations in the budget. Suddenly the door flew open. A big, fierce...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLAND: Midnight Madness | 12/27/1926 | See Source »

DARK OF THE MOON-Sara Teas-dale-Macmillan ($1.50). The sea, it is said, is the great civilizer. Sara Teasdale (Mrs. Ernst B. Filsinger) of St. Louis, Mo., has walked and lain long beside it, learning over and over the sea's "immemorial yearning" until it has become her...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Non-Fiction | 12/27/1926 | See Source »

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