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Word: desiree (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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Furze, meanwhile, marries a waitress whose full bosom heaves with eagerness to scrub the floors he walks on. She, Rose, shares his passion for the practical, his desire to toil and spin and then plough fields to get up a sweat. With her he is happy.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Figures of Turf | 4/11/1927 | See Source »

ZERO ? Collinson Owen ? Dodd, Mead ($2). John Garth, a London literary machine capable of producing $35,000 per annum, has fame, a mansion, a pretty wife and a son. But the wife plays cards too much. The son is at school. John Garth sickens of being a machine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fresh Start | 4/11/1927 | See Source »

For one to start the morning off with a strong does of economics is an action that requires true intellectual curiosity. Although some may think that the vagabond with his inclination towards evening concerts, art galleries, and the theatre is a soft individual unwilling to sacrifice his personal comfort for...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE STUDENT VAGABOND | 4/7/1927 | See Source »

In "Magda" it is the old Prussian paternalism, proud, self-righteous, and unbending, against the new spirit of freedom and the unbreakable will of a talented, restless woman. Magda, driven to leave her home early in life by the narrow and unsympathetic intolerance of her father returns twelve years later...

Author: By A. L. S., | Title: CRIMSON PLAYGOER | 4/6/1927 | See Source »

Then, later in the day, if the indomitable desire for culture still persist, the Vagabond can hasten back from Soldiers Field when the sun begins to glow comfortably in the late afternoon. If he has time, let him stop a minute on the Anderson Bridge to watch the oars dip...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE STUDENT VAGABOND | 4/4/1927 | See Source »

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