Word: learnedness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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As soon as the newspapers came out, the populace learned that Mr. Hoover had called their country "the world's bread basket." The phrase sounded new and original in Buenos Aires and it "took" tremendously. There were headlines about it, as well as about the various newborn babies who...
Nebraska's Cornhuskers (p. 44 of the current issue of Most Estimable TIME) are so labelled because as every sapient editor knows, students at University of Nebraska are recruited largely from the wide, smiling, pleasant areas of the Corn Belt, and because, as to football players, many a lad...
Rumanians learned last week who is the very best mother in all Rumania. They were told by the Dowager Queen Marie-herself the mother of three Rumanian princesses, Princess Ileana, ex-Queen Elizabeth of Greece and Queen Marie of Jugoslavia. So modest is Dowager Queen Marie that she did not...
Friends of the Del Rios were less amused. The emotion, they knew, was real. They recalled how Del Rio, owner of 20 ranches in Mexico, learned to write scenarios so as to have a professional reason for being with his wife in Hollywood, how he was known there as "Mr...
His foil Max, though miscast, lives down by capable work one of these curtain speeches about "illness. . .kind consented. . .learned the part overnight" that are such a ball-and-chain on amateurism, and which were burlesqued out of sight by Beatrice Herford in "Cock Robin". Minder Sewall as Mimi, Allegra...