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Word: knowes (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...tired of TIME'S blathering, daddling stupid, idiotic, fatheaded fumbles. "Washington State's Golden Bears!" What pansy-eyed window-dresser writes your so-called sport news? Everyone, even TIME, should know that California's teams for 40 years have been known as the Golden Bears. California, not Washington, is famous for the discovery of gold...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Nov. 11, 1929 | 11/11/1929 | See Source »

Says one dentist to another, if you are not a member, the charge of admission is one dollar. How can you expect the younger members to know anything, when the older ones act as exclusive as they do. Let the non-members and the independents get together and put up a man whose motto...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Nov. 11, 1929 | 11/11/1929 | See Source »

...know where we're at. Are we going to have a tariff bill? If not, let's not meet here at 10 o'clock every day and sit until six and go through the motions of considering this bill. Let's meet at twelve and adjourn at one and then Senators can go out on the golf links every...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE TARIFF: Voice from Olympus | 11/11/1929 | See Source »

Undismayed were National Guardsmen throughout the land last week when a six-foot Baptist clergyman eased his big frame down to the desk of Chief of the Militia Bureau in the War Department at Washington. Well did militiamen know that this new Federal director of their organizations in 48 states has long been leading a double life: that he is as much a soldier, seasoned in hard service, as he is a preacher potent in the pulpit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Preacher Militiaman | 11/11/1929 | See Source »

...morning to remark. -met Noel Coward at Condé Nast's roof party last night and Noel tells me -.' Or, '- So John D. Jr., was standing in the stern of Vincent Astor's yacht (he's a swell guy when you get to know him) and I said...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Birth Of An Advertisingman | 11/11/1929 | See Source »

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