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Word: lastinger (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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One might take exception to the language. In spots it is rough and, it seems to me, out of place on the printed page. Perhaps it is characteristic of our age, but not more so than of most ages. Somehow it is reminiscent of "Flaming Youth" or "The Plastic Age...

Author: By David LANIER ., | Title: A Page of American Fiction | 10/17/1927 | See Source »

While Mayor Walker was thus engaged, Manhattan newsreaders were depressed and confounded to read upon the editorial page of tho sedate New York Times an article which 'definitely jeered at the second busiest holder of public office in the U. S. Said the Times: "It is a comfort to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICAL NOTES: A Mayor Abroad | 9/19/1927 | See Source »

What type of feminine English fiction reader may be calculated to suffer most from "an unprobed spirit of romance"? Why, who but a typist? A pure, attractive, hardworking, intelligent young woman between 25 and 30; the kind Elinor Glyn gushes over and Gilbert Frankau glorifies. She dresses modestly for her...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Number 100 | 9/12/1927 | See Source »

The Marconi Co. of London last week announced a new creation by Captain Round, one of its engineer-employes. It was a benefit to blindness?a process by which a full-length novel can be recorded on six double-faced, twelve-inch phonograph records. Each record "reads aloud" some 5...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Phonograph Reading | 8/1/1927 | See Source »

I'll certainly have to "hand it to you" now. I used to think your style was too good, too far over the heads of the multitude to make any lasting impression. But evidently you have even arrested the attention of the editors of our dreadful Chicago Tribune. Look...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Jul. 18, 1927 | 7/18/1927 | See Source »

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