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Word: isn (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...accent. Since she is a woman the Lower Classes did not criticize her personally; but several Gallery Gods bawled that Gor' blymy her assistant evangelist didn't sing so an Englishman could understand him! Biting her lip and pink with vexation, Aimee McPherson shrilled: "He isn't an American at all! He lives in London. He's an Irishman!!" Even after this explanation and much powerful preaching, however, the audience of 10,000 yielded only 40 converts, who rushed to the Four Square Pulpit and cast themselves upon the bosom of the Lord. The meagerness...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Poor Aimee | 10/22/1928 | See Source »

Almost tearful were the pleas for protection voiced to the Conference by many an industrialist delegate, including one from Sheffield who cried: "Forty-three more of our blast furnaces have been shut down in the past twelve months! If the steel industry isn't safeguarded, I predict that not a single blast furnace will be operating in England by the spring...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Stanley for Stability! | 10/8/1928 | See Source »

KING FOR A DAY --OLD MAN SUNSHINE, sung by SAM COSLOW. Coslow is billed as the "Broadway, Minstrel", has a good voice similar to Harry Richman, and a pair of agonized eyebrows. The record however, Isn't so hot. Not Coslow's fault--just a poor recording. Watch this...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: RECORDS | 10/3/1928 | See Source »

...sure TIME isn't prejudiced against Porto Rico. TIME is too open-minded to be biased against any nationality. "Viva Puerto Rico y los portoriquenos...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Sep. 17, 1928 | 9/17/1928 | See Source »

...docked in Manhattan but John did not go to meet it. His absence from the pier won $1.50 in bets for Miss Trumbull. Debarking, she said, she and John had "our own understanding." They would not be married before Christmas-a White House wedding would be "thrilling"-"but there isn't much chance of that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Family | 9/17/1928 | See Source »

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