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Word: lar (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Germans, Spanish, Dutch and Scandinavians wanted a purely economic "U. S. E." The British, Italians, Hungarians and Albanians were understood to have taken an attitude courteous but noncommittal. Finally "between a pear* and some cheese" M. Briand rose. Would they all authorize him, he asked, to send a circu- lar memorandum and questionnaire to their governments, inviting collaboration and suggestions as to the form which a "United States of Europe" might finally take? It was little enough to ask ? after such a luncheon. Unanimously the guests voted as Host Briand wished?a mere gesture, but without something...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE LEAGUE OF NATIONS: Little Cornerstone | 9/23/1929 | See Source »

When asked for his opinion of the Lar-doux painting, Sir Joseph's crisp moustache twitched and his mobile eyebrows performed a stately and scornful ascension. "The picture," he declared, "is a copy, hundreds of which have been made of this and other Leonardo subjects and offered in the market as genuine. Leonardo never made a replica of his work. His original La Belle Ferronière is in the Louvre...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Duveen on da Vinci | 2/18/1929 | See Source »

...artist, an upholsterer, a vendor of ladies' wear and a man without occupation. Chief counsel for Mrs. Hahn was large, ironic S. Lawrence Miller. His opponent was excitable Lawyer George W. Whiteside. The room was littered with books on esthetics, histories of art. On an easel stood the Lar-doux painting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Duveen on da Vinci | 2/18/1929 | See Source »

...national play for aviation manufacture, Cleveland last week lost another deal, recuperated on a previous loss. ^ The current loss was Goodyear Zeppelin Corp.'s proposed factory for building, first, two airships larger than the Los Angeles or Graf Zeppelin, and later, simi- lar ones. Cleveland wanted the industry. Los Angeles, San Diego and 100 other cities wanted it. President Paul Weeks Litchfield of both the Goodyear Tire and Rubber Co. and the affiliated Goodyear Zeppelin Corp., chose Akron, Goodyear headquarters...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Cleveland Aviation | 11/5/1928 | See Source »

...putting it charitably. Of particular feebleness are the two attempts on pages one twenty-one and two, while "Light Cast on Moving Tragedy" very nearly approaches these in its unworthiness. The rest of the prose is at least up to a satisfactory level, though none of it deserves particular lar mention...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: EASTER FINDS LAMPY IN NEW GRASS-GREEN DRESS | 4/2/1928 | See Source »

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