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Word: doesn (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Dudley Fitts, who can, and, on occasion, does write verse which at least scans, has contributed some doggerel which smells of the Rotunde and of which this particularly gifted critic cannot decipher so much as a line. One of its verses begins with a comma. It doesn't really seem to matter...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SPRING HOUND AND HORN PLEASES AND PUZZLES WITH WIDE VARIETY | 3/11/1929 | See Source »

Uncle Geebee has a great big surprise for you kiddies this morning. He is going to tell you all about Peter Pan--the boy who wouldn't grow up. Well, kiddies, Peter was sent to college; and that was just ideal. For of course, at college one doesn't work; one just pretends to be sophisticated; one doesn't grow up,--one becomes what some call indifferent. This was wonderful for Peter, for he didn't want ever...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE CRIME | 3/9/1929 | See Source »

...ever wear a flower in your buttonhole? Or do you think a fellow who wears one a sissy? If you do, you are wrong. The man who wants to wear one and does is more of a man than the man who wants to wear one but doesn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Mar. 4, 1929 | 3/4/1929 | See Source »

There is a vast difference in slowly torturing animals to death and killing them instantaneously. For one who is snow-bound in the mountains of Montana-Earl doesn't seem to get the drift. VIVIAN HOWIE Norristown...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Mar. 4, 1929 | 3/4/1929 | See Source »

...journalism to cigaret indorsing. 'Whenever I am tempted to eat between meals,' his signed statement reads, 'I light up a Lucky.' Little did the American Tobacco Company know that in Mr. Swope's life there is no such time as between meals. Elementary, he doesn't have any meals. The former - and his bellowing of 'Tear up the contract!' therefore now makes us only laugh - Executive Editor of the World, always is five or six hours late for break fast, luncheon, and dinner, no matter what time they are scheduled for. What...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Swope's Smoke | 2/25/1929 | See Source »

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