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Word: friend (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...never .heard you whistle during the whole War!" cried the friend...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: Hindenburg's Whistle | 10/15/1928 | See Source »

...commonly supposed, a new and mysterious discovery. The same gas, known as Pintsch gas, has been used in a less pure form to light railroad cars and farmers' stoves in this country for a decade. Herman Blau of Augsburg, Germany, simply refined upon the initial work of his friend Julius Pintsch and gave his name to the product...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AERONAUTICS: Blue Gas & Hydrogen | 10/15/1928 | See Source »

Cartoonist Powers of the Hearst newspapers has had the assistance of his old-time friend and fellow Hearstling, Arthur Brisbane. These two used to be together on the World years ago. One of the most famed Powers subjects was "The Boy Editor," executed from time to time when the young Brisbane was performing prodigies in Manhattan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Potent Pictures | 10/15/1928 | See Source »

With what wealth of plot and counterplot did the play proceed! A friend of Jackson Jones lent his incongruous assistance to Billie; he was a person who used these terms in answering a telephone: "You speak first, it's your nickel." Also he suggested a Smith slogan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Oct. 15, 1928 | 10/15/1928 | See Source »

...ambulance chaser is a lawyer's tout (hireling, doctor, nurse, policeman, friend, acquaintance) who persuades an injured person to hire the lawyer to sue for personal damages...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Ambulance Chasers | 10/15/1928 | See Source »

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