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Word: fronts (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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Imagine seeing a black cat in front of the house, first thing in the morning of the day your husband expects to be elected President of the United States...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: The Thirty-First | 11/12/1928 | See Source »

...were set up in the living room. As the sun sank returns began coming in. The Hoover secretaries darted hither and yon with slips of paper, chalk and chalk-erasers, like marker boys in a brokerage office. Mr. Hoover worked with them for a while, then sat in the front row of chairs, smoking a pipe. The buzzing crush of people seemed to bother him. He went into his study. Telephone calls were incessant. He discouraged premature congratulations, wandering between living room and study...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: The Thirty-First | 11/12/1928 | See Source »

...like good doctors, resent publicity. There is nothing pretentious about the firm of Delano and Aldrich. The building in which they work, designing perhaps 30 mansions every year, as well as office buildings, schools and churches, is an old stable neatly rebuilt into studios and little rooms. At its front are some of the little round windows which, erroneously enough, have come to be regarded as identification discs upon the works of Delano and Aldrich...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Many Mansions | 11/12/1928 | See Source »

...front cover...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Egyptian Helen | 11/12/1928 | See Source »

...Europe. So had Mr. Gatti. But then came the War. Vienna stayed German and the Metropolitan Opera went Italian. Jeritza was married-to Baron Leopold Popper de Podraghy,* one of the wealthiest industrialists of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, turned soldier for his Emperor. She herself sang at the front, worked in a hospital. Not until the fall of 1921 did she come to the Metropolitan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Egyptian Helen | 11/12/1928 | See Source »

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