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Word: desiree (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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¶ Reminded by the Red Cross that 71,052 refugees from last year's flood were still being fed and sheltered by charity in Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi and Tennessee, President Coolidge evinced an ever-increasing. desire to have Congress get a flood measure passed this session. He looked upon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: The Coolidge Week: Mar. 12, 1928 | 3/12/1928 | See Source »

But still, why should Mr. Moore want to go to Peru? Peru is far away. Lima society is exciting, but very limited. After Madrid, Mr. Moore would find it paltry if not provincial. And aside from the absurd Tacna-Arica dispute, in which the U. S. is a laughed-at...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Moore Mystery | 3/12/1928 | See Source »

All but one of the senators of the U. S. last week received the following invitation: "My dear Senator: Having recently received a famous fiddle, you are most cordially invited to attend my first public recital, to be given from the top of the Washington Monument, this city, on the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Fiddled | 3/12/1928 | See Source »

Though Prince Carol abdicated of his own free will, and in Italy where he could scarcely have been forcibly brought to do so (TIME, Jan. 11, 1926), he began almost at once to itch for the sceptre which would otherwise have been his when King Ferdinand of Rumania died (TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUMANIA: Carol Loose | 3/12/1928 | See Source »

A mere day or so ago the might "Leviathan" was ferrying the more ambitious Freshmen up and down the river between cakes of ice: The Yard squirrels, seized with a touch of spring madness, had begun to disdain the sacrifices offered them. The Geology Department was wondering whether it was...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MARCH ON | 3/10/1928 | See Source »

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