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Word: donning (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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Asked if he believed in prohibition, the Robot answered "I don't know, when does it start?" Among other items of information accumulated in this human machine are the times of arrival and departure of all Boston-New York trains. The inventor even claims the ability to evoke after slight...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: STANDS, TALKS AND BARES TEETH TO AMAZED CROWD | 2/28/1929 | See Source »

Incidentally, for the benefit of the over-curious, there is a little show called "Manhattan Mary" also playing at the Shubert now. It really isn't of much importance; though, even without Ed Wynn, Boston has seen many worse. It has a strange resemblance to several revues which George White...

Author: By P. C. S., | Title: CRIMSON PLAYGOER | 2/27/1929 | See Source »

"I hope that before 1932 we shall have finished our task completely, both the Constitution and all the complementary laws. But I don't think it will require three years.....

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SPAIN: Rumor v. Fact | 2/25/1929 | See Source »

Comment. The aged Don Alvaro de Figueroa y Torres, Conte de Romanones, several times Prime Minister of Spain, and leader of the once great but now quiescent Liberal Party, commented last week at Madrid:

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SPAIN: Rumor v. Fact | 2/25/1929 | See Source »

The Significance. Such, expressed with infinite restraint, is the terrific indictment against an indifferent generation. A girl's lover is killed-she feels no emotion; a country is in revolt, "the best people" pay no attention. Not that they do not love their Ireland: their patriotism flowers in smart...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Irish Indifference | 2/25/1929 | See Source »

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