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Word: least (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...expression and evidently is intended to convey that those who patronize picture shows are an uncouth or blatant lot. It has been my observation that all classes attend the "movies" and that many of these theaters provide an entertainment which can well be enjoyed by a person of at least the average intelligence. It may be that even your wisecracking theatrical writer is not so much above the average...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Aug. 27, 1928 | 8/27/1928 | See Source »

Merely because Frau Stresemann is almost the only wife of a German Cabinet Minister who is not plump or a frump, they disapprove. But no one ever seems to really mind, least of all the smart Poodle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Vivat Gustavus Rex! | 8/27/1928 | See Source »

...generation of sport writers looked at this immortal creature scampering about in and out of bunkers, laying approaches dead to the pin and holing 15-foot putts. "The grand old lady of golf," they cried, with customary rudeness. Mr.s. Fox, not in the least embarrassed, went on playing her steady, irreproachable game. Sixteen years ago she became a grandmother. "Afternoon naps?" she said. "None of it for me." In 1923, when she was 62, Mrs. Fox played in the Belleair Heights, Fla., tournament. In the finals she had a medal score of 77 which beat famed Glenna Collett, her opponent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Death of Fox | 8/20/1928 | See Source »

...Finally, additional plant capacity of at least 350,000 cars a year is secured at a time when Chrysler cannot build cars fast enough to meet demand...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Automobiles | 8/20/1928 | See Source »

Politically, he is an independent Republican, at least nationally. But he has made a vow not to support Nominee Hoover unless he declares for modification of the Volstead Act. Prohibition is his chief antipathy. He could not possibly dislike any human being so much...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Friend Block | 8/13/1928 | See Source »

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