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Word: mephisto (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...neat a trick as daylight saving was announced last fortnight by smart Dictator Mustafa Kemal Pasha whose beetling brows and piercing eyes suggest the wisdom of a Mephisto...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TURKEY: Mephisto v. Allah | 12/9/1929 | See Source »

...Sunday, yet preserve the traditional sequence of Turkish days of the week. Even simpler than daylight saving, the Kemal plan is open to only one objection: possibly Allah will not like to be worshipped on Jehovah's day. Until popular feeling on this Godly point can be gauged, Mephisto Kemal will...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TURKEY: Mephisto v. Allah | 12/9/1929 | See Source »

...most prodigious Mephisto...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Point With Pride: May 12, 1924 | 5/12/1924 | See Source »

...Mephisto, sagacious commentator in Musical America, drew forth a few reminders...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Prodigies | 10/15/1923 | See Source »

...House, Manhattan, which was built by the late Oscar Hammerstein, and which has been used off and on for the production of lyric dramas. Mr. Loew will turn this theatre into a motion picture house. You might expect doleful complaints and bitter comments from the partisans of Art, but Mephisto in Musical America takes the transaction rather philosophically. Says...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: No Complaint | 6/25/1923 | See Source »

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