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Word: lefts (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Denial: "There appeared recently in the Press an article in which it was stated that His Imperial Majesty the Shah of Persia left Teheran at the head of an expedition to Louristan, and that His Imperial Highness the Crown Prince was appointed as Regent during the absence of the Shah from Teheran...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: May 21, 1928 | 5/21/1928 | See Source »

...your readers. It is 100% befitting vacuocaputs. Do you think for a moment you can get away with that "etc., etc.,"? Must you confess you were stumped, or were you too lazy to look up any more Gentile names? Whichever it was, the "etc., etc.," was very derogatory and left the impression of, "Why bother to mention any more Gentiles? There are ever so many brilliant millions of Gentile composers," as you doubtlessly intended your note to effect...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: May 21, 1928 | 5/21/1928 | See Source »

...every eminent one in America is, as stated, Jewish. You must admit that. But then your wise editorial head induces you to add, with just the faintest trace of insult, "But Toscanini is no Jew." Toscanini is not Jewish. What of it? Take away Toscanini, and whom have you left for a list of Gentile conductors, I ask you? Take away Toscanini, and whom have you among the Jews? I refer you to your own printed list, which includes all the conductors of note in America...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: May 21, 1928 | 5/21/1928 | See Source »

...feeling continued high at Niagara Falls, and elsewhere. The Senate, on a motion by New York's Copeland, ordered an inquiry by its Commerce Committee. Commander Charles S. Root of the U. S. Coast Guard left Washington to inquire for himself. "Put them in uniform," said editorials throughout the land...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Shooting Folks At Night | 5/21/1928 | See Source »

...Ailing felt the need of subdividing his estate for homesites. Mr. Alling's across-the-road neighbor, one Benjamin Franklin Affleck, heard of this and telegraphed: "Such concentration of housing and population is entirely contrary to the general scheme of things in that part of Lake Forest. . . . We left Winnetka [modest Chicago suburb regarded by some as a stepping-stone to Lake Forest, by others as a model community] because of numerous small houses built in our neighborhood...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Millionairea | 5/21/1928 | See Source »

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