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Word: knowes (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Terry for the little girls who break windows and thumb their noses, Bert for the blind musicians of Dixie, Ted for the titmice, Timothy for the cats, Tobias for the Turkeys, Louis or Louie for the long guns? And doesn't everyone who has heard of tom-tom know that it doesn't TOM at all, but wum-wum-wums? TIME is too kindly, too wise, not sufficiently Jimmy Wal-kerish, to head this TOMfoolery. Give TOM a break, along with Richard and Henry...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Jul. 30, 1928 | 7/30/1928 | See Source »

...matter of fact-_. A few days before the Hoover-Baby incident, Nominee Smith had been asked by press photographers at Albany to pose in the act of laying bricks. Nominee Smith refused and said: "I can't lay bricks, and any bricklayer that saw it would know I couldn't. That's a baloney* picture and I'm not going to stand for any baloney pictures in this campaign...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICAL NOTE: Baloney | 7/30/1928 | See Source »

Counsel: "Everything went black and he did not know what he was doing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DEMOCRATS: Magistrate Smith | 7/30/1928 | See Source »

Counsel: "He had had nothing to eat. He didn't know what he was doing. He became dizzy and could not see what he was doing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DEMOCRATS: Magistrate Smith | 7/30/1928 | See Source »

Said Brother-in-law Convert, husband of Captain Loewenstein's late sister: "I want this affair cleared up. If my brother-in-law was drugged we must know about it, if possible. Suicide is out of the question. On the day before his death Captain Loewenstein telephoned one of his closest friends that he was on his way to see his son ride in the horse show at Geneva. He was a man too happy to commit suicide." Autopsy findings. ". . . many multiple fracture wounds, proving that the fall was from a great height ... no trace of drugs or poisons...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Loewenstein Found | 7/30/1928 | See Source »

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