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Word: dowered (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sometimes in evening dress. At her command is the vocabulary of a circulation-wrangler. Often she entertains her reporters in the magnificent house on Dupont Circle (formerly Daisy Harriman's) where the Coolidges stayed following the White House fire. Also she has bought and is rebuilding the famed Dower House near Rosaryville, Md., once owned by Lord Baltimore...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Washington Comics | 7/24/1933 | See Source »

...Years of struggle were crowned with the publication of Cavolo Repeana, a recipe for stuffed cabbage published in Good Housekeeping, over his wife's signature. His first novel, The Lay Anthony, brought more satisfactory literary acclaim. Now, a familiar U. S. Literary Figure he lives in the old stone Dower House at West Chester, Pa., goes to an office in the business section of the town to write his books. Some of them: The Three Black Pennys, Java Head, Cytherea, Balisand, The Party Dress, The Limestone Tree, Sheridan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: New Wine in Old Tanks | 7/25/1932 | See Source »

...Caliph's daughter receives $200,000 and his cousin $75,000, both brides securing the concession that in case of termination of the marriage by death of the husband or divorce, the widow or divorcee will receive absolute possession of the full dower...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDIA: Nizam's Azam and Moazzam | 11/23/1931 | See Source »

...Hale 5 2 0 0 0 McDonough 4 2 1 3 1 Sherry 5 1 4 2 0 Weafer 4 3 7 1 0 Livingston 4 1 2 0 0 Shortell 3 1 0 0 0 Weddleton 4 0 9 1 0 Smith 3 1 0 0 0 Dower...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: JAYVEE NINE CONQUERS STRONG DEAN ACADEMY | 5/5/1931 | See Source »

...Charles Hann Jr., Manhattan lawyer, onetime Harvard football star, whom she met last October at the wedding of Richard Brown Scandrett Jr., socialite nephew of Senator Dwight Whitney Morrow; secretly, last month; in Towson, Md. From Col. Thomas Mrs. Thomas inherited riches (she sued successfully for her one-third dower-right) and the morning Telegraph, Broadwayish sporting sheet (she dynamically edited for two years). In 1927 she married Col. Lytton Gray Ament, introduced to her by Queen Marie of Rumania, honeymooned with him as the Queen's guest, divorced him last May for mental cruelty...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Mar. 2, 1931 | 3/2/1931 | See Source »

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