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Word: joneses (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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Usage:

I know these Englishmen. You have clean missed the point in footnoting Codger P.-Jones' mild complaint (TIME, April 15). There is, in your publication, a certain TIMEly aptness of phrase peculiarly satisfying to American sensibilities. But to an Englishman, and God forbid that he should feel otherwise, these...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Apr. 29, 1929 | 4/29/1929 | See Source »

In my opinion Mr. Palmer-Jones' trouble is that he has become used to your style except where it touches the Windsor family.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Apr. 29, 1929 | 4/29/1929 | See Source »

With his automatic revolver, Lopes fired. The quarry sped on. Then, on Ingraham's order, Machinist Samuel Jones opened machine-gun-fire from the picket boat's bow. Some 200 bullets whined through the dark. These random shots did not stop the runaway but they: 1) startled Mrs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PROHIBITION: Bedevilment | 4/29/1929 | See Source »

Jones. A prominent member of the coal business nowadays is "Tad" Jones. The public knows him better as the old-time coach of Yale football teams. Mr. Jones used to welcome to Yale physiques like coal heavers. Now he employs physiques like that professionally, and for his private yacht, the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PROHIBITION: Bedevilment | 4/29/1929 | See Source »

The Seneca searchers found no liquor. Mr. Jones grimly promised to complain to Washington.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PROHIBITION: Bedevilment | 4/29/1929 | See Source »

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