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Word: g (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...besought to send a Welshman to juggle polysyllables in Sailor Crick's stead. Darkly brooding upon this matter, Sir William fretfully observed to correspondents that "doubts exist whether the spelling of the town's name really is L-l-a-n-f-a-i-r-p-w-l-l-g-w-y-n-g-y-l-l-g-o-g-e-r-y-c-h-w-y-r-n-d-r-o-b-w-l-l-l-l-a-n-t-y-s-i-l-i-o-g-o-g-o-g...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Too Muck for Crick | 3/4/1929 | See Source »

SHADOWED!?Hilaire Belloc?37 Drawings by G. K. Chesterton?Harper...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Standard and Travesty | 3/4/1929 | See Source »

...Collaborators. G. B. Shaw's theory is that Chesterton and Belloc are not two persons, but one mythological monster, "the Chesterbelloc," a combative, capering elephant. Both write brilliantly, voluminously?history, biography, fiction, indifferent poetry, essays on religion and ethics, essays on morals and manners; both champion ecclesiasticism, traditionalism, medievalism; both revile socialism, woman's suffrage and G. B. Shaw...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Standard and Travesty | 3/4/1929 | See Source »

Followers of the game were astonished. Mr. Pell had held the championship since 1915 with the exception of 1916, 1923 and 1926 when it was won by Stanley G. Mortimer. Mr. Sheldon had to despatch Mr. Mortimer before meeting Mr. Pell, which made his success doubly convincing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Racquets | 3/4/1929 | See Source »

...telegram worded exactly as above except that THE DENVER POST was substituted for THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE and the self-descriptive blurb was LARGEST NEWSPAPER IN THE UNITED STATES BETWEEN THE MISSOURI RIVER AND THE PACIFIC COAST. The telegram was signed by that dark, daring Desperate Desmond of Journalism, Frederick G. Bonfils, owner-publisher of the Denver Post, onetime riverboat gambler...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Coolidge Exploited | 3/4/1929 | See Source »

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