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Word: hell (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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Secretary Mellon, waiting inside with Attorney General Sargent and Postmaster General New, at last received the Mayor, who thereupon had to be photographed for 15 minutes more. While the cameras ticked, Postmaster General New remarked: "It's a hell of a long time for a New Yorker to be still...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Again, Walker | 3/19/1928 | See Source »

...write stories, ignoring many an art class to wrestle with plots. He has written well over a hundred short stories many of which have been published in Harper's and the Pictorial Review. Bubbles and The Man Who Saw Through Heaven were O. Henry prize stories. When Hell Froze was the winner in a Harper contest. Meat is his second novel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FICTION: One Man's Meat | 3/12/1928 | See Source »

Last in importance but first and omnipresent in display came the companions in arms of Marshal Haig: the Lancers, the Queen's Own Hussars, the Royal Horse Guards upon their matched chestnut horses, the King's Own Scottish Borderers (better known as "The Ladies from Hell"), finally the Foot Guards in towering fur busbies, the Welsh, Coldstream and Grenadier Guards...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: British Commonwealth of Nations: Toward 1940 | 2/13/1928 | See Source »

Said he later: "She was such a pretty baby, I hated like hell to see her die. When I got home I washed my mouth with lysol. I was a damn fool to do that. I couldn't eat for two days. No, I wasn't afraid...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Diphtheria Hero | 1/30/1928 | See Source »

...patronage)?"What the hell! We Won, didn't we? Don't the winners deserve the gravy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HEROES: In Newburyport | 1/16/1928 | See Source »

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