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Word: knowes (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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However, in some unaccountable way I neglected to secure his name and address, neither did he get mine, but I know if he reads this letter (if you print it), he will, no doubt, communicate with me as I desire...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Taft Letter | 11/5/1928 | See Source »

...third issue I call 'silence.' There can be no democracy without free discussion of the people's problems, no representative government unless the people know what the candidate stands for and the candidate knows what the people want...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Battle of the Atlantic | 11/5/1928 | See Source »

...least visible. Grandson Arthur Smith Jr., aged 30 months, sang "Sidewalks of New York" for the "talkies" last month. Son Arthur Smith, a blond young man of 21, last week took up speechmaking. He asked support for the "courageous and honest leader of the Democratic Party" and said: "You know I am the luckiest boy in the world to receive my first vote in time to cast it for the man I have the honor to call father. ... I think my father is the best fellow in the world. . . ." Al Smith Jr., too, made speeches...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sons & Daughters | 11/5/1928 | See Source »

Candidate Hoover was described by Willis J. Abbot as "a stocky blond . . . who always wears a Derby hat!"?although he almost never wears one, and although even morons know that the "Derby" is the symbol of Candidate Smith. Incidentally the picture of Candidate Hoover published by Britannia showed him soft-hatted. Willis J. Abbot added that Herbert Hoover "looks like a 'Herb...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Frankau's Britannia | 11/5/1928 | See Source »

...expounding U.S. prohibition Britannia's informant referred glibly to the "Volstead Amendment," although even sub-morons know that no such amendment exists. It did not appear from the context whether the Volstead Act or the Eighteenth Amendment was meant...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Frankau's Britannia | 11/5/1928 | See Source »

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