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Word: glassful (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Mason, Shriner, Elk, Woodman, was appointed Senator from Michigan last week to succeed Woodbridge N. Ferris, 75-year-old Democrat who died of pneumonia last fortnight. Mr. Vandenberg made the fifth journalist in the Upper House. Fellow Republican publishers to whom he can look from behind his horn-rimmed glasses for encouragement in his maiden speech are Cutting of New Mexico, Capper of Kansas, La Follette of Wisconsin. Senator-publisher Carter Glass of Virginia sits across the aisle among the Democrats...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Michigan's Vandenberg | 4/9/1928 | See Source »

...world press partly discovered and partly created a new hero last week. His very stature is heroic-six feet six-and his broad shoulders support a massive head crowned impressively with snowy hair. As the representative of the British Empire, he strode into the Glass Room of the League of Nations, at Geneva, and delivered a speech which was soon compared to the great orations of Cicero...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE LEAGUE OF NATIONS: Disarmament Debate | 4/2/1928 | See Source »

...hero, Baron Cushendun, rose and towered six feet six over the wide horse shoe table in the League Glass Room. With biting innuendo and battering logic for more than an hour he attacked the Soviet draft convention article by article, and finally in principle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE LEAGUE OF NATIONS: Disarmament Debate | 4/2/1928 | See Source »

...when she published, in 1921, a book of poems called Nets to Catch the Wind. After Black Armour, more poetry, she poured into a mold of prose the fluent and shining metal of her talent for metaphor. Jennifer Lorn was her first novel; The Orphan Angel and The Venetian Glass Nephew its successors. Author Wylie, her publishers announce with a show of pride, spent less than three months in writing her latest novel. This is an admission less damaging than it appears to be; Author Wylie thinks before she writes and is therefore capable of producing, with a minimum...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Mr. Hazard's Maggot | 4/2/1928 | See Source »

Democrats Alfred E. Smith1380 James A. Reed 363 Albert C. Ritchie 274 Thomas J. Walsh 266 A. Victor Donahey 48 George F. Dorlot 19 Will Rogers 14 Owen D. Young 11 Carter Glass 6 John W. Davis 4 William G. McAdoo 3 Oscar W. Underwood 2 A. Lawrence Lowell 1 Joshua Whatmough 1 Charles A. Lindbergh 1 James Angell McLaughlin 1 Republicans Herbert Hoover 1841 Charles G. Dawes 230 Frank O. Lowden 183 Charles Curtis 52 Frank B. Willis 40 William E. Borah 28 Alvan T. Fuller 27 Charles E. Hughes 25 George W. Norris 21 Calvin Coolidge...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: LEADING CANDIDATES | 3/21/1928 | See Source »

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