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Word: l (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...reason is that M. Coty's perfumes were banned from Budapest last fortnight when he printed a disparagement titled "Hungary, Land of Counterfeiters and Pickpockets" in his French newspaper, L'Ami du Peuple...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HUNGARY | 10/22/1928 | See Source »

...Rear Admiral Yates Stirling, U. S. N. (retired); Dr. F. L. Patton, onetime president of Princeton University...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Old Age | 10/22/1928 | See Source »

...Sculptor John Gutzon de la Mothe Borglum, who threw the image of his design upon the cliff with a gigantic stereopticon and marked the outlines accordingly. Feverishly vexed was Mr. Borglum when his contracts were cancelled. He smashed his models (TIME, March 2, 1924 et seq.). Said he: "Am l a plumber to be hired by a committee? I am not. They say that I have loafed on the job, don't they? There isn't a corpuscle of my blood that loafs." The Stone Mountain Association appointed Virginian Sculptor Henry Augustus Lukeman to succeed Mr. Borglum. "Delighted," said...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Vexed Venable | 10/22/1928 | See Source »

...room, Hope College 12, had two closets, one for clothes, the other for coal. Coal & clothes were sometimes mixed and perhaps, sitting on the chaste Grecian steps of Manning Hall discussing the lectures of loved Latin Professor John L. Lincoln with his classmate & fraternity brother, Charles Evans Hughes, he would absently pluck a bit of black dust from waistcoat pocket. No. 12 Hope College is now inhabited by blackamoors, being in the heart of Brown's Harlem...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Fatince Out | 10/22/1928 | See Source »

Born. A daughter, to Mr. & Mrs. G. Macculloch Miller (Flora Whitney) of Roslyn, L. I. The child is granddaughter of Harry Payne Whitney, financier & sportsman, and Mrs. Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney, heiress-sculptress...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Oct. 22, 1928 | 10/22/1928 | See Source »

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