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Word: guess (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Natrona County, Wyo. To accommodate them, Secretary Fall and Edwin Denby, Secretary of the Navy, prepared an executive order, transferring these reserves from the Navy to the Department of the Interior. President Harding was badly worried, but he signed the orders. Then Fall signed the leases. "Well, I guess there'll be hell to pay," said President Harding, "but these fellows seem to know what they are doing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CORRUPTION: Long, Long Trial | 4/9/1928 | See Source »

...rate, I venture the guess that Mr. Milstead with all his deep rooted Ku Klux Klan brand of patriotism and desire to die for his country, did his fighting during the World War in the Battle of the Living Room, or certainly in the Guerre de la Chambre de Couche . . . IRA HODES New York, N. Y. Born in, fought and bled, and like hundreds of thousands of other non Ku Klux Klanners ready at a moment's notice to fight again for our United States of America...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Apr. 2, 1928 | 4/2/1928 | See Source »

...identity of Author S. S. Van Dine has long been a mystery. One guess is that he is a famed architect living in Manhattan. Readers who like their murders raw have been annoyed by his ramblings into esthetics; but none can deny that his plots are incredibly good. His Greene Murder Case has an almost perfect culprit. His Canary Murder Case has an almost perfect climax-in a poker game...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Drawling Detective | 4/2/1928 | See Source »

...Patten: "Well, Cyrus calls himself a Democrat, but I don't know. Cyrus is a Democrat, I guess, because he was born that way, but I think he votes the Republican ticket about as often...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CORRUPTION: Juggled Bonds | 3/19/1928 | See Source »

...tired pelican. The point wasn't wholly clear to us at the moment, but just a little more of Clara Bow made the allegory oh, so clear. Elinor Glyn wrote it, Clara Bow acts in it, and there you are. Bubbles McCoy (and you can go ahead and guess who in Hollywood would play a part with a name like that) has an opportunity to do plenty of the familiar pouting, and the unintimate undressing that has made her so--well, that has made her. She twinkled at a dear old roue and the lady that is always nearby said...

Author: By C. D. W., | Title: THE CRIMSON PLAYGOER | 3/13/1928 | See Source »

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