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Word: lively (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...householder nearest the scene refused to admit the rough-looking man in sheepskin and overalls who came pounding on the door to telephone for an ambulance. The householder sent for the ambulance himself. At the hospital, they said that Motorist Hanson might not live and would certainly be blind if he did, perhaps insane. A bullet had smashed into his right temple...

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

Although hampered somewhat by superfluous. Lampoon infielders the CRIMSON batsmen had more than half a century of uninterrupted victories to live up to and went right out in the first inning to put the game on ice. After that if there were any signs of cracking they must all be chalked up to the Lampoon's account. The CRIMSON held its own with never a waver...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Crimson Diamond Warriors Take Stupendous Mud Battle by Conventional Count-Fighting Lampoon Nine Loses 23 to 2 | 5/19/1928 | See Source »

...country places and leaving the sticky streets, the rich citizens of London return to town for a spring of gayeties. The yearly exhibition of paintings at the Royal Academy opens the season. To the Academy's doors came last week lords and ladies, all the best people who live in London, eager to see the pictures and excited at the prospect of saying how-do-you-do to friends they had not seen since the autumn shooting in Scotland. Mrs. Winston Churchill, with three Anglo-Indian ladies, Painter Sir John Lavery with his lady, Margot Asquith, an enormous smile...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Royal Show | 5/14/1928 | See Source »

...flew. For half a mile it traveled in a burst of speed. Bonney waved his arm in triumph. And then the Gull nosed down to earth and dived straight into the ground, a mass of wreckage. Bonney landed on his head 20 feet away, with only moments left to live...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AERONAUTICS: Aerodynamics | 5/14/1928 | See Source »

Paris Bohemians, needing diversion, become his disciples. So also Rosemary Kent, daughter of a steel magnate, Great Dragon of the Indiana K. K. K. As brother and sister they live in Marly woods, barefoot, till Rosemary catches cold, and returns to patent-leather slippers in America...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: East is East | 5/14/1928 | See Source »

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