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Word: lefts (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...confidence in Coach Arnold Horween to make it clear that he will hardly interfere in such an important matter as the choice of the latter's assistants next season. He now emphatically states that, in the last analysis, the selection of line, backfield, and other coaches will be left as usual to the judgement of the head coach...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE COACHES | 2/27/1929 | See Source »

...left the office of general manager in 1921, but continued as counselor to the A. P. until his death...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Death of a Stone | 2/25/1929 | See Source »

...Wylie -Doubleday, Doran ($2.50). In the little Spanish church of the Silver Virgin, where years ago he had found Justine, Gale sought sanctuary from his well-bred kindly friends. But friends being what they are, one of them broke sanctuary; and not knowing why Gale had left Justine, begged him to be reconciled to her. Bitterly, Gale: "Do you ever read your Apocrypha? You should. You really should. It has some fine eloquent passages. 'Like a eunuch embracing a virgin and groaning heavily.' What a magnificent metaphor! Those old fellows knew how to express themselves. They didn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Twenty Mattresses | 2/25/1929 | See Source »

...small-town brewer in East Prussia, Sudermann left school at the age of 14, was apprenticed to a chemist, turned up nevertheless at Immanuel Kant's university in Konigsberg. Sometime journalist in Berlin, he finally devoted himself exclusively to writing novels, and plays, provocative in their sociological significance - Die Ehre, Es lebe das Leben. He died last November, aged...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Sudermann's Sieburth | 2/25/1929 | See Source »

Duveen. For four days Sir Joseph had been a harried witness. He had flayed the Hahn picture, testily calling its left eye "dead," "very dead," and "beadlike." On the fifth day he covered the whole damozel with one more coating of scorn. "She is a fat person!" he gibed. "A peasant type." Then he joyously pointed to a reproduction of the Louvre Belle. "This is a great lady of the period." Reverting to the Hahn painting he described the shoulders as flabby, the arms as puffy, the breast as lacking modeling, the embroidery as untrue to Leonardo's period...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Duveen on da Vinci | 2/25/1929 | See Source »

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