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Word: mood (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...stream of life take its own way through playful eddies and deep pools. Black April is a full size product, as authentic as a bumper cotton crop. The Author. Her birthday was Halloween, 1880. Her mother died and she was reared by an oldtime Negro "mauma." Her name, Julia Mood, was near the top of the class of 1896 at Converse College

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Fiction: Apr. 4, 1927 | 4/4/1927 | See Source »

Last fall Cox broke Tibbetts' cross country record, and is considered the strongest entry in the two mile race. However Captain Haggerty won two first places in last week's meet and will start in a confident mood...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FAVOR CRIMSON RUNNERS TO WIN NEW YORK I. C. 4A. | 3/5/1927 | See Source »

...Simmons College, Boston, back of the Art Museum on Huntington Avenue, 835 girls are studying to become private secretaries. Later they will learn the dreariness of this type of work. But as yet they retain their maidenly assurance. And it was in this mood that last week, at the behest of their Director Edward Henry Eldridge, they examined the current prudency of the Ten Commandments. They found that God had graven His Commandments...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Commandments | 2/14/1927 | See Source »

...killer, at that. There is among most of the student body after every examination period, a feeling that they have studied harder than ever, and that they deserve a high grade, whether or not they receive it. It is better to celebrate, by all means, while this righteous mood endures, than to wait for the cold light of reason and the return of the mailing cards have a sobering effect...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: TO THE VICTOR | 2/2/1927 | See Source »

...different. What is usually a sad, ironical figure, she turns into a deftly satirical one. Though affording Mrs. Fiske's admirers an opportunity to exclaim once again over her genius for discovering comedy in almost any kind of situation, it failed to accord with the sombre mood of a drama of doom. Theodore St. John, as Oswald of the softening brain, convincing at times, seemed entirely too self-possessed in the crisis...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: New Plays: Jan. 24, 1927 | 1/24/1927 | See Source »

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