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Word: doesn (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...comes to that conclusion. Arthur Brisbane, Arthur the Great, is becoming sentimental. He's singing editorial mammy songs. He's weeping over the footlights of the pink sheets. He's dying on his feet. Mr. Hearst must go elsewhere for the poisoned arrow with the winged shaft. Or doesn't he want to? The rumor is that he doesn...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MORT D'ARTHUR | 6/4/1927 | See Source »

...that, of course, doesn't revive Mr. Brisbane. It merely embalms him. Take some paragraph from his Boston message of last night. "Women are natural teachers; teaching has been their business from the beginning; teaching children, teaching husbands...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MORT D'ARTHUR | 6/4/1927 | See Source »

...after, but these are entirely international and he has had them all the time, so that is nothing new. He is a cheery bird but as a minister representing a Great Power he lacks in dignity. He fraternizes with all the Revue actresses-German and Lettish, and doesn't do it discreetly either. I wonder if you spotted in that same issue-Foreign column-another error. There is a long article on Maria Feodorovna-nee of Denmark and it goes on to say 'whom you see here' and the accompanying picture is of the murdered Empress Alexandra...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Enthusiasm | 5/30/1927 | See Source »

...scholars, the vulgarisms of popular speech are finally gaining their deserved recognition. Such at least is the opinion set forth in an editorial in "Liberty" which takes up the cause of natural expressions such as "He don't" and "It's me" as opposed to the stilted "He doesn't" and "It's I." "Ain't," the writer admits with a sigh, is gradually losing ground in its fight to supplant the awkward "am not" or "aren...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: GOOD USAGE | 5/20/1927 | See Source »

...always said that the bigger they come the harder they fall, and this spitball pitcher that these Princetonian editors have may get by all right for eight innings but he's sure to blow up in the end. Tell the second baseman to play around, like Ullman doesn't, and the pitcher to keep out of the hole, like ours don't, play for the run, and you'll win. Anybody batting over a thousand gets a tryout with the Braves...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: AUTHORITIES VOICE COMMENDATION OF ATHLETIC REVIVAL | 5/7/1927 | See Source »

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