Word: knowingness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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One of England's mellowest legends concerns a Countess of Salisbury who found her garter slipping, in the merry, ardent days of Edward III (1312-77). Down and down slipped the garter until it tumbled before the knowing eyes of a pack of smirking courtiers. But Edward III, with...
Friday afternoon they headed into a gale. Ice began to cover their vessel; wind heaved it roughly about. Darkness was coming on; their benzine was almost gone. So they dipped in a cautious glide toward the earth's surface, not knowing whether below the fog's bed was...
However, knowing the character of the members perhaps better than TIME, does, he predicts that it will take more than TIME'S feeble attacks to stop the steady progress of the Klan.
President Edsel B. Ford of the Ford Motor Co. designed a taxicab, putting on wire wheels, a clock, four doors & an Ustco taximeter; called the whole, logically enough, a "Luxford." Hackmen saw it in Manhattan, ordered 300 the first week, without knowing the price or the delivery date. The Taxi...
Secretary Everett Sanders, knowing the chronic Walker tardiness, had reserved no definite portion of President Coolidge's time, but the latter would ordinarily have gone to lunch before 12.32 p.m. when Mayor Walker breezed in.