Search Details

Word: earthly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

...girl." She regrets that Marie did not write of some lovely Rumanian legend, that her Russian blood did not endow her with "some talent, mysticism and taste," that the English blood did not "add a sense of humor to her complex composition." Finally she is left pondering what on earth the book is about. Says Mrs. Sheridan: "A strange young woman named Glava rides a carrot-colored horse whose tail sweeps the ground.... She does much climbing of mountains, dresses in white robes, carries a spear, has her hair in two long braids. The horse is a 'grand creature...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUMANIA: Regal Authoress | 8/4/1924 | See Source »

...WONDERFUL VISIT?An intruding Angel finds that things on Earth are not as they are in Heaven...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: The Best Plays: Aug. 4, 1924 | 8/4/1924 | See Source »

Deputy Prince Otto von Bismarck, grandson of the Iron Chancellor, crashed to earth in an airplane at Bamberg while on his way from Berlin to Niirnberg to attend an aviation meet. The Prince, an experienced War pilot, was not seriously injured; the machine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: Notes, Jul. 28, 1924 | 7/28/1924 | See Source »

Grand Totals. With seven championships (rugby, shooting, track and field, catch-as-catch-can wrestling, rowing, tennis, swimming) credited in twelve branches of completed competition, the U. S. clinched a victory over the other Nations of the earth for all-round Olympic honors: U. S. 83; Great Britain 33; France 30; Finland 30; Sweden 22½; Norway 20¼; Uruguay 10; Argentina...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Olympics | 7/28/1924 | See Source »

...During the month of June, 28,605 students were examined and 12,000 were expelled. Many students were arrested as counter-revolutionists' and deported to the very prisons which the nihilists want to wipe off the face of the earth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News Notes, Jul. 21, 1924 | 7/21/1924 | See Source »

Previous | 175 | 176 | 177 | 178 | 179 | 180 | 181 | 182 | 183 | 184 | 185 | 186 | 187 | 188 | 189 | 190 | 191 | 192 | 193 | 194 | 195 | Next