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Word: donning (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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But why worry about anything so trivial? Not yet have the front-line trenches of the World War produced anything faintly resembling a good novel, nor to my mind will they. I don't suppose we shall even have a story by a real soldier describing exactly his emotions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Able Allen | 7/15/1929 | See Source »

Dr. Friedrich W. von Prittwitz und Gaffron, the German Ambassador, sought relief from Washington's heat at Hot Springs, Va., making occasional trips back to the capital only when necessary. He hopes to visit the Fatherland later in the summer. H. H. Prince Albert de Ligne, Belgium's Ambassador, has...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CABINET: Exodus | 7/8/1929 | See Source »

Maine has been a Dry State for 75 years. Arthur Robinson Gould was elected in 1926 as one of its Dry Senators. Last week Senator Gould, 72-year-old Yankee, was involuntarily shown to be not so Dry as many of his constituents had supposed. The revelation came during a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PROHIBITION: Man from Maine | 7/8/1929 | See Source »

A thousand or so Republican delegates crowded into Richmond's Shrine temple for a state convention. Mr. Slemp was still smiling wisely when he arose, proposed and had his fellow Republicans nominate a Democrat for Governor. The Democrat was Prof. William Moseley Brown of Washington and Lee University, already nominated...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICAL NOTES: New Era, Cont. | 7/8/1929 | See Source »

Alfred Emanuel Smith, tanned, wearing a cinnamon suit and tie, was reinstalled in Manhattan last week as a director of National Surety Co., a position which he held for two years prior to 1922. He wandered about inquiringly, said: "I'm looking for the cigars. I won't...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Jul. 8, 1929 | 7/8/1929 | See Source »

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