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Word: edgar (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...friendship between the U. S. and France. Men will do much to beautify that which they find most terrible ; thus the urn which is to contribute its comfort to Rodman Wanamaker's grave was fashioned by the fore most iron worker in the world and a great artist: Edgar Brandt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Earth in an Urn | 7/16/1928 | See Source »

Like beaten puppies, the snarling folk of Broadway often cringe from the hand that is raised to stroke them. For example, Edgar B. Davis, an obscure but very wealthy operator in oil, produced a play called The .Ladder (TIME, Nov. 8, 1926), which dwelt, with confused eloquence, upon a theosophical theory of reincarnation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Advertising, Dopey | 7/2/1928 | See Source »

Last week Edgar B. Davis again surprised Manhattan theatre-goers by announcing that from July 11 until further notice The Ladder would play to paying audiences...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Advertising, Dopey | 7/2/1928 | See Source »

Word went out from 61 Broadway, Manhattan, that George Edgar Vincent is going to retire as president of the Rockefeller Foundation on Oct. i, 1929. It is rather more than likely that his successor will be Max Mason, who is leaving the presidency of the University of Chicago (Rockefeller founded) to become director of the department of natural sciences of the Rockefeller Foundation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Rockefeller's Men | 7/2/1928 | See Source »

...William Edgar Borah, candidate, but very seldom mentioned, was to attend, accompanied by tiny Mrs. Borah, who answers her Senator's-wife mail in impetuous longhand and keeps birds flying about in her Washington apartment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CAMPAIGNS: Grand Old Party | 6/11/1928 | See Source »

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