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Word: mightly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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Sirs: I note that Mr. J. H. Landers of Temple, Tex., has called your hand about the height of skyscrapers; reminded you that the omission of the Amicable Building at Waco, Tex., was a grave one. Mr. Landers might have related an amusing quip well known in the Southwest. It is told that a gentleman from Shreveport or Tulsa (the old chronicles are not explicit) was made acquainted with a Waconian. "So you're from Waco, are you?" he drawled. "Yes suh, thass right," agreed the Waconian. "And may I ask, suh. what floor do you live on?" wisecracked...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Sep. 2, 1929 | 9/2/1929 | See Source »

Brother Gus last week brought in Washington a libel suit for $1,000,000 damages against Mrs. Willebrandt and Current News Features, Inc., which had syndicated her articles. He said he felt such a charge of official misconduct might injure his reputation. In St. Louis he moved to tie up payments to Mrs. Willebrandt by the Post-Dispatch, though this paper, in publishing her article, had deleted from the sentence quoted above all reference to Gus Nations...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PROHIBITION: Nations v. Willebrandt | 9/2/1929 | See Source »

Correspondents heard at British headquarters that whatever attitude the French might take, British troops would begin to move out of the Rhineland within a month. At London, the Daily Herald, organ of the present British Labor Cabinet, promptly said...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: The Hague Haggle | 8/26/1929 | See Source »

...Provocative incidents" reported during the week, any one of which might serve at a moment's notice as "provocation for declaring war" were...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Growing Graver | 8/26/1929 | See Source »

...That might have terminated as an internal company dispute. But Promoter Montgomery mailed Airvia prospectuses which intimated that the company would earn $2,430,000 per year. In its first three weeks of operation it earned only $8,000. The flyers told the postal authorities, disclosed Promoter Montgomery's prison record (five years at Atlanta for using the mails to defraud...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AERONAUTICS: First Stock Scandal | 8/26/1929 | See Source »

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