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Word: helpful (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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Hostess Morgan said: "It's not for sale, but I'll help you start one in Dallas" [where Agent Tyson had said he lived...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PROHIBITION: Women & Wine | 8/13/1928 | See Source »

Naturally the serial had to have a catch-eye title-one that would help sell the paper-and Young Benito called it, with sonorous sacrilege: Claudia Particella, L'Amante del Cardinalel; Grande Romanzo dei Tempi del Cardinale Emanuel Madruzzo...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: Grande Romanzo | 8/13/1928 | See Source »

...popular figure, except among grateful Bulgarians, who know of her by word of mouth. Her meticulously written Memoirs are the confessions of a very earnest soul which has nothing to confess: "Upon rising in the morning it is my custom to go at once to my brother and help him with his fairly bulky correspondence. . . . We partake of ... breakfast and frequently dine together at about 2 p. m. After dinner I play some athletic game. ... I deplore the fact that so many of my girlhood friends have moved to other countries upon their marriage, leaving me few intimates...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BULGARIA: Burnt Tsar | 8/13/1928 | See Source »

...dear child. Make your own choice. Only the King is lonely and unhappy." "Unhappy," cried Little Minx Emma, according to her mother, "Then I will go to him and to them-my future subjects! I will do my duty, with God's help." Queen Emma. When Old King Willem proceeded to beget the present Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands, her mother, Queen Emma, had much ado to control a little Princess even more energetic, exuberant and wilful than she had been herself. For example, the Present Queen of the Netherlands behaved most obstreperously when, at the age of nine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NETHERLANDS: Queen Emma Celebrates | 8/6/1928 | See Source »

...John Pierpont Morgan's lithe, athletic and slightly deaf cousin, Joseph Clark Grew, the U. S. Ambassador to Turkey, heard a loud cry for help last week while ferrying across the Bosporus, leaped in, rescued the Turkish lady...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Aug. 6, 1928 | 8/6/1928 | See Source »

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