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Word: knowing (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...know what special attraction Rose Marie has for the King," said a member of the manager's staff at Drury Lane, "unless it is that His Majesty likes the tunefulness of the play and the fact that there is nothing in the text to cause embarrassment or uncomfortableness...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Come along, Ganpa! | 11/18/1929 | See Source »

...wasn't really a sanitarium! Do you know, I've heard...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: Stalin's Love Song | 11/18/1929 | See Source »

...Pronounce the Word!" It was now four hours past midnight. The grand debate narrowed to an issue?and what an issue! Some Deputies of the Left (thoroughgoing anticlericals) demanded to know "if the Government will pronounce the word 'laicism'" in connection with an obscure educational bill totally extraneous to the debate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: New Strong Man | 11/18/1929 | See Source »

...nervous peasant, Comrade Michael Son-of-Ivan Kalinin, the puppet President of Russia. He started uneasily when someone shouted. "Is Stalin sick or well?" He looked as though he would like to run when the whole hall began to clamor, "Tell us! Sick or well? We demand to know...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: Stalin's Love Song | 11/18/1929 | See Source »

...audience and said: "This strange beating together of hands has no meaning. To me it is very disturbing. We try to make sounds like music, and then in between comes this strange sound that you make. I am not criticizing you. I am criticizing a custom. I don't know where it originated, but probably back in some dark forest in medieval days." Delighted, the audience clapped loudly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Nov. 18, 1929 | 11/18/1929 | See Source »

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