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Word: desiree (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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This new book, then, is only a restatement of the old grim joke of those who start after the Holy Grail or the secret of the stars and end up in a maze of very stark, human, and rather pitiful desire. The men and women who take this pilgrimage are...

Author: By R. L. W., | Title: Human Satire | 11/13/1928 | See Source »

If your magazine is meant to conform to this ideal, the least that you can do is to print an apology for your article of Oct. 22 and tell your readers what has actually been the career of Dr. Faunce at Brown. He came to the university at the close...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Nov. 12, 1928 | 11/12/1928 | See Source »

John J. Raskob, cheerful, used to vicissitudes, perhaps something of an opportunist, said: "... we ... shall take our place in the ranks of the majority of American citizens whose desire is the future welfare of our country." He was not to return to General Motors. Perhaps, said rumor, he would head...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Election Results: President-Reject | 11/12/1928 | See Source »

Crashing Through. This is one of those plays which tell how the other half lives, the other half in this case being the Pooles, a Nieuw Amsterdam-bound old family who are proud of family portraits, prouder still of family history or so much of it as has not been...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Nov. 12, 1928 | 11/12/1928 | See Source »

Nominee Robinson, stumping in the restless Northwest, made full use of the Hoover cry of "Socialism!" and of Senator Norris' consequent declaration for Smith. He translated "Socialism" into what most of the Northwest's successful politicians call "Progressiveness." A typical Robinson excerpt: "His [Nominee Hoover's] denunciation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Campaigners | 11/5/1928 | See Source »

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