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Word: lots (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...substituted, or at least talked a great deal about, a love of Romance-and of "good copy." Both have written with an (extravagance surpassing mere boastfulness and Playboy Halliburton, though constantly referring to himself as "such a nut" and "incorrigible" and "foolish," has the editorial wit to push a lot of his playfulness off on various traveling companions. Also, knowing his public, Author Halliburton carefully explains that whenever the companion happened to be a female they stayed at separate hotels...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NON-FICTION: Play-boy | 5/30/1927 | See Source »

...third-year players lose both games, the league schedule will end in a triple tie, and the team to go to Yale will be chosen by lot...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CHAMPION CLASS TEAM WILL ENGAGE YALE NINE | 5/24/1927 | See Source »

...have gone, but when faced by the doughty Plympton Street aggregation the University punsters have inevitably succumbed. Investigation has followed investigation but never has any cause been found for the defeats except the undeniable superiority of the newspapermen. Already, in anticipation of the gloom which will be its lot while all Plympton Street rejoices at sundown. Mt. Auburn street is being decked in black. The inevitable is rapidly becoming known as such...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 23 to 2 Tally To Tell Tale of Titanic Tilt Today--Lampoon And Crimson Renew Diamond Rivalry With Same Old Result | 5/18/1927 | See Source »

...astonishment that the White Bird should take off in the face of unfavorable weather conditions. Weather Bureau officials said that adverse winds in Mid-Atlantic would retard the plane by 25 miles an hour. Said U. S. Aviator Floyd Bennet: "Fighting a head wind is discouraging and uses a lot of gasoline...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Eight Miles Up | 5/16/1927 | See Source »

...Story is told by a small boy whose name is the book's* title. Because his father is a sot, and he thinks people suspect him of knowing a lot about how Mitch Miller (the subject of a novel Author Masters published in 1920) got killed, Kit O'Brien leaves Petersburg, 111., with two of his friends. Hungry, they steal apple pie. His friends get caught, but Kit proceeds, Huck Finn fashion, down the Illinois River into the Mississippi. There on a houseboat he finds Miss Siddons, an impoverished ac tress with a disfigured face, living with a madman. When...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FICTION: Apple Pie, Red Pepper | 5/16/1927 | See Source »

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