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Word: lefts (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...weeks of the American-Russian Chamber of Commerce tour was as much as adventurous Miss Cogswell and loyal Mrs. Ingalls could stand. Having startled fellow passengers and many a Volga boatman by appearing on the hot deck of a river steamer in lounging pajamas, they left the party at Tiflis in the Caucasus, announced their intention of climbing Mount Ararat "to look for traces of Noah...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: Soviets Prefer Brunettes | 8/26/1929 | See Source »

...prized and esteemed the House of Liechtenstein as one of the two or three in Europe of a lineage almost as pure and exalted as their own. Princesses of Liechtenstein had at least an even chance of espousing archdukes of Austria. Last week members of the few aristocratic families left in Vaduz, capital of Liechtenstein, wished that they could refuse to believe their eyes and ears as they saw Prince Franz enter his castle in state with that woman, then heard his Grand Chamberlain present her to "every son and daughter of Liechtenstein" as "the new mother of our country...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LIECHTENSTEIN: New Mother | 8/26/1929 | See Source »

...version. The housekeeper recalled that Teacher Eaton had returned late, quarreled with a man in front of the apartment before entering. In the room were many clues. The detectives took fingerprints, found that the assailant had changed from his own blood-spattered clothes to Mr. Eaton's, had left behind a razor and a block of wood. Although $4,000 had been stolen Scotland Yard did not think robbery was the sole motive. It was announced that two men were being trailed for "causing grievous bodily injuries." One J. Moore, 22, surrendered himself and was charged with deserting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Teacher on Vacation | 8/26/1929 | See Source »

...mathematical one where he was amid songs and beer dubbed Proteus, ever-changing old man of the sea. The second was the Breslau Student Socialist Society, of which he soon became chairman. Finding one night, that the police were on his trail for editing a radical weekly, he left for Switzerland, radical retreat, then for New York via steerage where he was admitted past the Statue of Liberty after some demur over his appearance. Living with a friend in Brooklyn, he found work two hours away as $12-a-week draughtsman for solemn, pouchy-eyed Rudolf Eichemeyer of Yonkers, himself...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Protean Gnome | 8/26/1929 | See Source »

...have sufficed to let him marry Bess Howard, only the money proved counterfeit. What could Jones do but return it? Bess moved to town, began going to "play-parties." Fayre remonstrated but could do nothing until a man to whom Jones turned out to be a brother on the left side, died, leaving a "homeplace." Then Fayre moved in with Bess for his "wife-woman." She gladly planned, by bringing along "child-things," to become a "mother-woman...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Tennessee Talk | 8/26/1929 | See Source »

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