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Word: matings (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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Thus Bernard Mead, timber magnate of Pauquette, Wis. There comes a day when, surrounded by his female relatives, including his spinster aunts, querulous mother, prolific wife and lusty offspring, he begins talking wildly of "seeing through" the eternal moil of creatures struggling to exist, acquire, mate and reproduce. He "sees through" to the essential, motile miracle of living?or something like that; neither he nor Miss Gale can quite express it. His wife sends for an alienist. He rushes off to Alia Locksley, the waiting one, hoping she will understand his prodigious discovery. But she is only sex-hungry...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Fiction: Dec. 20, 1926 | 12/20/1926 | See Source »

Unless you continue to print more of Mary Elizabeth Robinn's letters and stop using the word "Manhattan" I will stop my subscription. . . . That disappointed virgin Robinn must need a mate to soften her perennial ire against the Prince of Wales. As far as I can remember (and that is some two years back) she has been scolding you about the Prince's baggy eyes, or is it trousers? You need no humorous column as long as you sow your LETTERS with such luscious tidbits of outraged virginity. If you stop my subscription because of the above...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Dec. 13, 1926 | 12/13/1926 | See Source »

...regulars on which veterans of last year are also predominant. Two members of the undefeated 1929 sextet have won places as wingmen on this combination, the rest being letter men. These Sophomores are John Tudor, captain of last year's Freshman skaters, and H. G. Crosby, Tudor's running mate in the 1929 forward line. R. S. Scott '27, at center completes the second forward combination, which will be supported by a football defence, furnished by C. D. Coady '27, and E. C. Clark...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: TEAM OF VETERANS WILL FACE M. I. T. IN OPENING ICE TILT | 12/9/1926 | See Source »

...With the coming of the Coolidges this bed and its mate were sent to the rooms occupied by the Coolidge boys, and on it little Calvin Coolidge suffered the agonies of blood poisoning. He was removed from it only to die at Walter Reed Hospital...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Presidents, Wives | 11/15/1926 | See Source »

...Coach Horween's final decision. It seems almost certain, however, that Strong will start instead of Saltonstall and that Kilgour, veteran of two Princeton games will be in his guard position at the initial whistle. The backfield is settled except for the choice between Guarnaecia and French as running mate to Miller and Sayles. Guarnaccia is the present favorite for the starting berth, which would leave French as a dangerous threat in a relief role...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Light Practice the Rule in Final Preparation for Tiger Encounter | 11/5/1926 | See Source »

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