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Word: isn (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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When you see your first war play in several years, two points are driven home in short order. The first is that the tears, the significant remarks and so on do not ring true, and the other is that the humor isn't half as bad as you used to think it was when you were deluged with it some years back...

Author: By J. H. S., | Title: CRIMSON PLAYGOER | 2/20/1929 | See Source »

Will never be old Where the tocsins of Liberty ring. A national hymn isn't easy to write. For the hymns of a nation are made...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Feb. 18, 1929 | 2/18/1929 | See Source »

...correspondent from Manhattan: "Isn't the situation almost reversed? Every American correspondent here is certainly ready to help in any way possible, but of course you can be of infinitely greater help...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: Grand Spectacle | 2/18/1929 | See Source »

...tell you," she said, "there isn't much fun in it! . . . Fate always spoils most of one's dreams...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: YUGOSLAVIA: ''Alexander the Absolute | 2/11/1929 | See Source »

...stated that the Lampoon unfortunately, was in no position to prevent foreclosure of the mortgage. Old Lampoon editors, the quondam rivals of the editors of the CRIMSON, and prominent Harvard Alumni, were unanimous in deploring the move made to throttle the Lampoon. "What does it matter if the Lampoon isn't funny", stated a former editor of the periodical, now with Life, "Fun's fun, and nobody will take it seriously...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Old, Lampoon Building Will Feed Residents of Gold Coast House | 2/9/1929 | See Source »

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