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Word: doings (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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5) "... I say to the American workingman that the Democratic party will not do a single thing that will take from his weekly pay envelope a 5-cent piece. To the American farmer I say that the Democratic party will do everything in its power to put back into his...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: On the Border | 10/22/1928 | See Source »

PROHIBITION No Beverage Poisoning is a grim, sordid phase of Prohibition. The most rabid anti-salooner would find it hard to vilify a lawbreaker who went shrieking to death with poison scourging his entrails. Last week an epidemic of poison liquor deaths struck Manhattan. John Becak, wagon driver for the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: No Beverage | 10/22/1928 | See Source »

"I do not know how much is known here about that great Middle West of America but it has got the healthiest kind of conscience to be found in the world. It was that conscience which abolished slavery and I believe it will ultimately abolish savagery of war?I hope...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: David v. Goliath | 10/22/1928 | See Source »

Sir James is neither cracked nor a spiritualist, but years ago he invented the hypnotic question, "You do believe in fairies, don't you?"; and ever since some people have enjoyed making believe in Peter Pan or fairies or anything else favorably presented to their notice by Elf Barrie. Last...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: "Seeing is Believing" | 10/22/1928 | See Source »

In justice to some of the poorer diplomats in Paris, the State Sevres Bureau indicated that they have "double exchanged" principally when driven to do so by the necessity of giving a sumptuous and costly wedding (or other) present.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Shrewd | 10/22/1928 | See Source »

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