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Word: howelis (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last October, the publishing world talked about an unhappy coincidence. Simultaneously with publication in Vanity Fair, monthly smartchart, of a savage burlesque on Frances Newman's novel, The Hard-boiled Virgin, Death came to Authoress Newman. Vanity Fair was embarrassed. Last week came another such occurrence, less embarrassing, no...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Epitaph | 9/2/1929 | See Source »

Over the western portal had emerged a figure, austere, terrifying in its solemnity. On its hoary head glittered a golden crown, over its shoulders shone a brilliant red chasuble. A long, patriarchal beard fluttered in the wind. For a moment the Figure was silent, then bellowed: I perceyve here in...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: God At Canterbury | 9/2/1929 | See Source »

Gustav Stresemann. The Hague Conference was called to put into operation the Young Plan (TIME, June 10) which fixed for the first time the total Germany must pay in Reparations. Neither Chancellor Snowden nor anyone else has made the slightest objections to this basic feature of the Plan. The whole...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Hague Haggle | 9/2/1929 | See Source »

Conference? In his public remarks last week Privy Seal Jim only hinted in broadest terms at the subject of his several private conferences with Prime Minister King and numerous Canadian tycoons, including august Sir Henry Thornton, President of the Canadian National Railways. "I do not propose to tell the Canadian...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CANADA: Privy Seal Jim | 9/2/1929 | See Source »

While Cabinet ministers looked bewilderedly at one another, President Chiang answered his own question with a torrent of shrill words. "We are not united! We do not work hard to make our country strong. . . . Not only Russia but all foreign countries do not give us due respect. . . . If we do...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA-CHINA: Blucher v. Chiang | 9/2/1929 | See Source »

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