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Word: live (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...spend a little carfare for the sake of lining up several thousand votes out of sheer sentiment? But what big men has West Virgina got? Senator So-and-so, I suppose, and Senator Whozis. I never heard of them. They can't stack up against Fess and Willis. I live only 50 miles from the Ohio River (you notice it's called Ohio River) and often see copies of the Charleston Gazette. They're hardly literate even on their newspapers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Feb. 28, 1927 | 2/28/1927 | See Source »

Therefore, the Calles womenfolk were in a delicate position, last week, on the eve of Senorita Natalia's wedding to Senor Carlos Herrera, a minor government official. Would big, burly Papa Calles insist that his daughter should have only a civil marriage, demand that she live out of wedlock in the eyes of Roman Catholics...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Natalia Into Wife | 2/28/1927 | See Source »

...total self-destructions since New Year's readied 21. Dire views continued to be expressed on the evil influence of new philosophies, new psychology, and of high-pressure school requirements. At the University of Baltimore, 13 undergraduates were inspired to form an Anti-Suicide Club, with the powerful motto: "Live and let live". . . . President Raymond Allen Pearson of the University of Maryland submitted: "Abnormal living is causing this chain of student suicides . . . imitation of what they see in their elders". . . . Amelita Galli-Curci, operatic soprano, went to Chicago, where her press agent inspired her to shrill: "It would be better...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: In Denver | 2/28/1927 | See Source »

...Father to his side, But Mrs. had her mind quite set; Before shed take this, Russian, bride She first must learn her etiquette. The four are now Southampton-bound, Where live most all the idle rich, On Long, not Coney, Island Sound, And there, there dwelt the Jealous Witch...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE CRIMSON PLAYGOER | 2/25/1927 | See Source »

...this because the "Vanities" didn't live up to expectations and because a revue can not be mediocre, it is either very good or quite bad. Otherwise Johnny Dooley, almost always, and Joe Cook, featured, but less consistently, can wheedle laughs from their audience and furnish amusement, never hilarious. The chorus, so integral a part of every revue, must be particularly brainy. Condemn the chorus and it leaves the show scarcely a leg to stand...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE CRIMSON PLAYGOER PAGE | 2/24/1927 | See Source »

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