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Word: knowing (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...this week's Miscellany (TIME, June 24) you recount the incident of a "snipper'' in Boston. You were so prompt and authoritative in identifying the recent case of transvestism that I wondered why you failed to spot this case of a snipper who did not know why he snipped girls' hair off, as body-fetichism. I was long a victim of this peculiar aberration, and only beat it when I identified it, as I did by chance when a copy of Krafft-Ebbing fell into my hands and when, shortly afterward I found that two months...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Able Allen | 7/15/1929 | See Source »

...must not move too hastily. Perhaps the first thing to abolish is the collar stud. We really must get rid of that. You know, men have far too many buttons to trouble them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Troublesome Buttons | 7/15/1929 | See Source »

...sure that the present régime in my country is doomed to failure sooner or later. In fact I am thinking of returning within a year after a stay in Italy, where I know I have the friendship of King Vittorio Emanuele and Premier Mussolini...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AFGHANISTAN: Sad Amanullah | 7/15/1929 | See Source »

Jencic refuses until she weeps. Then Louie cannot be found. Then the truth comes out. Louie has got her pregnant. This time Jencic proceeds against Baker Krusack's advice. He is his own man now. He says : "I know all about Teena, more'n you do. It is true she done something she shouldn't do, but after we get married it will be all right. Everybody makes mistakes. What if people didn't forget such mistakes, then everybody would be mad at everybody else, and nobody would have even one friend...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Peasant-Citizen | 7/15/1929 | See Source »

...another about the signature attached to some contributed verses he printed in early April, entitled "To a wife about to start on a shopping tour." The last stanza read: So when you dare declare to me You will not buy a hat Today-yon lie and know you lie!-I will not credit that! The signature was: "WILFRED J. FUNK...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Rhymester Funk | 7/8/1929 | See Source »

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