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Word: either (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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Vicomte Alain de Leche, France's young patrician poet, gave way to generalities about women before boarding the Majestic. German women . . . "wear too much glasses, are either Hausfraus or adventuresses." French women . . . "are too calculating." British women . . . "love sports too well, are developed only physically." American women . . . "are intoxicating, but oh! so intoxicated, I am shocked. I am disgusted. I shall never marry an American." But M. le Vicomte could be generous: "I liked Indians, cowboys, Charlie Chaplin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Comings & Goings: Jul. 23, 1928 | 7/23/1928 | See Source »

...stimulation and gratification of the sexual side of the psychic Occidental are more numerous in the Orient, and the continual flaunting of the erotic makes its impression on the unstable personality. If he evades it, it callouses his nature; if he succumbs to its wiles, it erodes him. In either case he may be thrown into a morbid mental condition...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Morbid Missionaries | 7/23/1928 | See Source »

Mauler was ready for the scrap 'cap, and 'e won't cup up my eyes, either. In all the time I've been fighting only one man did that, and 'e did by butting. . . . I've been reading where Tunney is supposed to be the Woodrow Wilson of boxing. If that's so, I must be the Theodore Roosevelt, because they say I'm rough and I'm always ready...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Snooze | 7/23/1928 | See Source »

Daily Mail: "Either never left Croyden in the airplane ... or disappeared in a motor car when the plane landed. . . prodigious hoax...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BELGIUM: Loewenstein | 7/16/1928 | See Source »

Sprawling like a high-humped lizard on the bed of the Atlantic Ocean is a mighty ridge, its lazy length (about 50 degrees N. lat. to 40 degrees S. lat.) following the S-shaped outlines of the continents on either side. A sheer 9,000 feet of height, it towers in the way of deep sea fishes scurrying from Pernambuco to Benguel. Its knobby head rises curiously above the waters in the north (Azores plateau); St. Paul, Ascension Island, and Tristan da Cunha mark its southern peaks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Atlantis | 7/16/1928 | See Source »

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