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Word: kiplingisms (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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Sunday dawned. Eve of the signing. In Canada, Germany, elsewhere, pastors thought of the French capital to which their captains and kings had departed to outlaw what has often been the business of captains and kings. In Toronto, Canon Plumptre dedicated the service of St. James's Cathedral to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: Peace in Paris | 9/3/1928 | See Source »

But the intrepid scientists will not live entirely bleak and barren lives. They may improve their minds. For light reading, they will have: The Little Blue Books (1,280 volumes donated by the Haldernan-Julius Co.), the Harvard Classics, the Encyclopaedia Britannica, a set of the works of Rudyard Kipling...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AERONAUTICS: Byrd's Plans | 8/20/1928 | See Source »

In Manhattan, having bided its time, the Democratic State Committee formally offered New York's "most distinguished son" to the nation. The chief speechmaker used the words "progress" and "progressive" nine times in ten paragraphs, and made the customary references to Andrew Jackson and Abraham Lincoln. A woman, Mrs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: The Brown Derby | 4/30/1928 | See Source »

Having vented this spleen George Moore lapsed back into his easy chair, grew pensive, and finally reconsidered. Said he, as the intoxication of his play's success wore off, "Of course what I said did not apply to admittedly outstanding writers of today . . . Kipling for instance."

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Success Intoxicates | 4/16/1928 | See Source »

When you're wounded and left on Afghanistan's plains, And the women come out to cut up what remains, Just roll to your rifle and blow out your brains An' go to your Gawd like a soldier. ?KIPLING.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AFGHANISTAN: Peace of God | 1/23/1928 | See Source »

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