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Word: litted (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...American Congress in Havana .next fortnight. After dark, he joined Mrs. Coolidge and drove to Sherman Square, behind the Treasury Building. Thousands of Washingtonians awaited them. While motors tooted and church bells rang and the Marine Band played Cantique de Noël, the President touched a button and lit up the Capital's Christmas tree. Soon after, the Washington throngs trooped into the White House grounds to sing Christmas carols around the lighted porte-cochère. President & Mrs. Coolidge, John Coolidge and a choir sent by the Interstate Commerce Commission, led the caroling . . . Christmas at the White House was quiet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: The Coolidge Week: Jan. 2, 1928 | 1/2/1928 | See Source »

...civilian aboard. Patrolling the coast, the Paulding had run across the S-4 amidships when the 54, on a trial run, came up without warning dead ahead. The S-4 had sunk immediately. The Paulding, herself damaged, had had to run ashore. From the flare-lit ships at sea, men were fishing. Just before midnight, coast guardsmen grappled what seemed like the S-4's hull, more than 100 feet down and several hundred yards from where a "slick" of oil had marked the sinking ship's disappearance. Depth rescuers-including crews and equipment which finally raised...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Off Provincetown | 12/26/1927 | See Source »

...took a 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 »

...college "humorous" magazine, he sugegsts, is to have, among one's fellow undergraduates, a considerable position and prestige; to be an editor of a college "daily" is to acquire not only this, but also (possibly) a certain amount of monetary assistance; but to be the editor of a mere "Lit" is to obtain neither. Moreover (Mr. Bailey feels) to be an editor of a mere "Lit" is, ipso facto, to inherit a thankless task. He suggests that nobody wants such a magazine; that in its pure form it cannot be self-supporting; and that therefore in the nature of things...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: REVIEWER'S DISFAVOR SETTLES ON ADVOCATE | 11/29/1927 | See Source »

...scatter or march proudly on? Closer and closer came the horsemen. Ah, there were women among them! Evidently a friendly "red" demonstration. The army "snapped into it" and the straggling columns of fours were straightened out, arms swung martially, heads were held proudly up and smiles of anticipation lit the men's faces. Then the whole spectacle was reduced to pathos, for the oncoming horsemen and women were scarlet-coated hunters pursuing a hapless...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Cook's Army | 11/28/1927 | See Source »

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