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Word: isn (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...cartoonist scoffed at the idea that an art school training would be of any great value to a would-be cartoonist. "There isn't much art in a comic strip, and I doubt whether going to an art school could be of much use anyhow. I never went to one, and most other cartoonists I know of never did. Experience and hard work, of course, are necessary preliminaries for a career at the drawing-board...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CARTOONIST MUST HAVE SYMPATHETIC EYE AND MIND, DECLARES BRIGGS | 4/27/1927 | See Source »

...does mine. Isn't that a funny coincidence?" replied her friend...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Spinach | 4/11/1927 | See Source »

...oath of office of President of the U. S. Through their minds must have flashed memories of the glorious days of 1913, when the party of freckle-faced Jefferso and hard-cider Jackson came back to power. Happy days. . . . Josephus Daniels laughing in the first meeting of the Cabinet "Isn't it great! Isn't it wonderful...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: CABINET PUDDING | 4/4/1927 | See Source »

...have sooty feet. Never was a book more bubbling with conversation. Joy and sorrow, large matters and small are discussed with that vast volubility of people whose social life is instinctive, unintellectual. On and on the voices flow, never tiresome, liquid, direct, humorous, full of "yunnuh" (you), "enty" (isn't that so?), 'sho'," "Jedus." A three-dimensional talking cinema could reproduce folk-life no more fully nor could any director efface himself as completely as Mrs. Peterkin to let a rich stream of life take its own way through playful eddies and deep pools. Black April...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Fiction: Apr. 4, 1927 | 4/4/1927 | See Source »

...isn't even there...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE CRIME | 3/28/1927 | See Source »

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