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Word: life (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...confidence which he displays in the print on a large signboard in front of his Illinois country home. He looked grateful for every handshake he got, every conversation" he was let into. Once he missed a handshake and had to fumble his coat button. The Senate is his life ambition ? and his seat was nearest the door...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: The Seventieth | 12/12/1927 | See Source »

...cigaret, lit it, and went over and stood beside him. He said: 'This is a hell of a Christmas.' I asked him what was the matter and he replied: 'Everything is the matter.' I gathered from his mutterings that things were not all right with him in his domestic life. In this same conversation the President told me that there were things going on in the public business that he didn't approve but that he was helpless to stop them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICAL NOTES: Revelations | 12/12/1927 | See Source »

...Cover of Life (Christmas Number): A girl, sitting, her legs half folded under her. In her hand a sprig of mistletoe. In her eyes pensive expectancy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Joke for Joke | 12/12/1927 | See Source »

...Life's Centre Spread: A rooftop. Smoke from the chimneys. Two chil- dren, their clothes blown by the wind, gazing upward. Riding across the sky Santa Claus, cracking his whip over reindeer. Caption: "I Wonder If It's Another Non-Stop Flight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Joke for Joke | 12/12/1927 | See Source »

...Joke in Life: Drawing (by famed John Held Jr.) of rooms in a house. In the center hangs the mistletoe. Around the edges, on stairs, behind curtains, on sofas, ten couples, "necking...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Joke for Joke | 12/12/1927 | See Source »

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