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Word: harped (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...cringing misshapen scoundrel would have spread the past like a blight over the newly wed couple. They went out upon the open roads to County Mayo; and when she made her confessional, telling of her eagle heart and her childhood's hard usage, Great Raftery laid aside his harp and caught...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ireland's Darling | 9/29/1924 | See Source »

...notice in recent press reports that the Democratic Vice Presidential candidate, Charles W. Bryan, a well known pacifist, continues to pick at and harp upon the coming observance of National Defense Day, insisting upon designating it a "militaristic" program...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Uncensored? | 9/8/1924 | See Source »

...scale consisting of five different notes, giving much the same effect as that which is produced when one plays on only the black keys of a piano. The tune of this particular hymn turned out to be rather "Chinese" in character, monotonous and plaintive. It was played on a harp which had 21 strings and was probably very popular with the old priests and cutthroats of Assyria...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Mash Mash Mash | 8/25/1924 | See Source »

...harp, yo' got a harp...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fisk | 8/11/1924 | See Source »

...more than 43,000. We trus, that it may be to you a fireside friend, speaking to you as the voice of Harvard; and that in the sunshine of the morning and the quiet of the evening this voice may murmur to you, in a melody charming as the harp of Orpheus, of the admiration, gratitude and love of the men of Harvard, and breathe to you their prayer that your years may be long in the house of your

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Distinguished Sanders Gathering Pays Eloquent Tribute To Eliot | 3/21/1924 | See Source »

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