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Word: either (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Daily Mail learned that " 'Hell and Maria' Dawes roared* as if he were on parade ground. While his audience sat silent, mesmerized, and almost embarrassed ... he shattered the ancient and peaceful atmosphere of Vintners' Hall and kept Lord Derby and Lord Riddell (who sat on either side of him) dodging his crashing fists...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Below the Belt! | 7/29/1929 | See Source »

...after the Armistice. The only way to escape paying this huge sum now and in cash would be to ratify the general debt settlement, one clause of which virtually grants France a moratorium on what she owes for War stocks. Logically the Government's position was unassailable-either ratify or pay at once "through the nose." But to Propagandist Franklin-Bouillion logic is something which can always be worsted by appeals to passion. Working himself by degrees up to a whirlwind climax, he pointed an accusing pudgy forefinger at M. Briand, shouted defiantly: "You cannot and you shall...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Debt Wrangle | 7/29/1929 | See Source »

...American League the batting leadership has varied between young Jimmy Foxx (see below) and Heine Manush of St. Louis. Player Robert ("Fat") Fothergill of Detroit has a higher average than either, but has not played in all his team's games as he really is too fat to get around very rapidly and is no great fielding asset. Meanwhile nearly all the hitters are swinging from their shoetops and watching the ball describe arching parabolas to not-so-distant fences...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Baseball, Midseason | 7/29/1929 | See Source »

Having shunned the issue for three years, the Deputies were faced last week with ratifying the Mellon-Berenger Debt Agreement (TIME, July 8). No other course was open to them. They had either to ratify the agreement or pay a separate War supplies account of 400 millions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Crucial Slap | 7/15/1929 | See Source »

...most disturbing features in connection with the many decadent productions that have been disported on the metropolitan stage this season . . . is the fact that they have been attended by thousands of respectable young girls, either with the sanction, or in the company of, their parents or guardians. . . . [This] indicates such a general lack of ethical, as well as thetic qualities, as makes even the most liberal minded sigh for a return of the ascetic Puritan spirit which so sternly repressed certain forms of wrongdoing. . . . When daringly salacious scenes, songs and tableaux are wildly applauded, not only by evening audiences...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: Vogues | 7/15/1929 | See Source »

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