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Word: getting (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Jones (increased Prohibition penalties) Law (1929). He votes Wet, drinks Wet. Legislative Hobbies: War veteran aid, protective labor measures, U. S. merchant marine, a high tariff for Massachusetts industries (shoes, textiles, manufactures). A bachelor, he is tall and stout. A double chin tends to get out over his tight-fitting collar. His stomach bulges over his belt. He weighs 200 Ibs. or more. Setting-up exercises every other day at a Washington health centre have failed to reduce his girth. He is troubled about it. His dress is dandified. He wears silk shirts in bright colors and stripes and, often...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Nov. 25, 1929 | 11/25/1929 | See Source »

...year ago he and his pal Edward ("Snake") Ryan escaped from Sing Sing by clambering through a transom in the prison kitchen, scaling the wall, swimming away down the Hudson river. Ryan was recaptured and returned to Sing Sing. From the underworld came word that Nannery has sworn to get Ryan out again...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Jobs oj the Week | 11/25/1929 | See Source »

...get exasperated with the Kaiser because of his sudden vagaries . . . like his speech about the yellow peril ... a speech worthy of any fool Congressman; and I cannot of course follow or take too seriously a man whose policy is one of such violent and often wholly irrational zig-zags...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Roosevelt on Wilhelm | 11/25/1929 | See Source »

...Take it From Me," one must give all columnists "An Even Break." Whether you are "In Broken Fields" or not, travelling "Down the Line" invariably brings you to "Lining Them Up." But whoever has been courageous enough to get this far cannot avoid that bottom-of-the-column feeling...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Yale Men Will Feel More at Home in Rounded Stadium--Bottle Royal is Promised for Today | 11/23/1929 | See Source »

...Taylor, another one of the Sophomores on Coach Stevens' squad that will get a crack at the Harvard line today. Last Saturday he figured in the two, Eli passes that brought the second touchdown and the point after touchdown. He also is a baseball star and last Spring was Deven's opponent in the Harvard-Yale Freshmen game...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: YALE | 11/23/1929 | See Source »

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