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Word: looke (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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Lovers of the true and the beautiful will agree with the Bookman in its suggestion that, for the good of American literature and increased sales, certain authors forbid the dissemination of their photographs. One cannot look at Joseph Hergesheimer for any length of time and still remain confident in the belief that he has taken tea with Corrine Griffith as many times as he says he has. Christopher Morley undoubtedly has a very kind face but he does not appear to be as whimsical as his publisher's blurbs would have led his readers to believe. And, as the Books...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: RIGHT FACE | 5/3/1927 | See Source »

...Alas, poor Yorick, I knew him well" (TIME, April 11, p. 28). One more sad blunder of newspaper Babbittry. If you have a library, and Shakespeare in it, look up the most misquoted line in literature, and reform...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: May 2, 1927 | 5/2/1927 | See Source »

...learned to look forward to the arrival of my TIME each Friday. It seems as inevitable as FISH and oh! "such a much" more delicious...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: May 2, 1927 | 5/2/1927 | See Source »

Miss Ferber: "Why, Mr. Arlen, you look almost like a woman...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Mayfairian | 5/2/1927 | See Source »

...there are no dogs. There are pipes cigarettes, there are even cigars, but there are no dogs. Vassar's query has been answered with a terse dirootness. Never any more can she look upon Harvard as one who has not seen the light. Harvard has been asked another and Harvard has answered--another...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS | 5/2/1927 | See Source »

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