Search Details

Word: donkeys (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

Since anthropology then consisted mainly of the Greek and Roman myths as related by Ovid, he had to rely on his imagination. He painted a troop of satyrs and demi-mortals congregating in a meadow around a hollow tree, a young bibulous Bacchus, a grinning Silenus straddling a donkey. Most of the company were engaged in making a racket on tin pans, to coax a swarm of bees into a cluster. Title: The Discovery of Honey...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Florentine Revival | 11/21/1938 | See Source »

...Hoover's one specific proposal was that Europe's War debts to the U. S. be used for exchanging international scholarships. *Republican elephant like the Democratic donkey first appeared in cartoons by famed Thomas Nast...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: Elephant Boy | 4/11/1938 | See Source »

...Nile from the broad delta at Alexandria to the narrow rocky cataracts of the Sudan border. Along that green cobra live 16,000,000 people, of whom 2,000,000 last week took advantage of fare reductions to journey to Cairo by train, steamer, felucca, autobus, camel and donkey. They went to celebrate the wedding of Farouk, their 18-year-old king, to Farida, meaning "unique," his 17-year-old Queen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: EGYPT: Queen Unique | 1/31/1938 | See Source »

...photos attached, show him with us in Barranquilla. Mr. Divo is on the right side of the picture with the writer and a donkey, which may be the one we refer to later...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Nov. 22, 1937 | 11/22/1937 | See Source »

...Belgrade. Yugoslavia, Adyar Atchiovritch was sent to jail for four and a half years. Reason: he believed his wife was unfaithful, traded her to a soldier for a donkey...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Oct. 25, 1937 | 10/25/1937 | See Source »

| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | Next