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Word: namee (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Jones is suing a California motion picture company for $150,000 for exploiting the name of her late husband, John Luther ("Casey") Jones, engineer-hero of the singing rails (TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Jan. 7, 1929 | 1/7/1929 | See Source »

...Notwithstanding the most superlative, and, I may say, supernat'ral exertions on the part of this parish," said Bumble, "we have never been able to discover who is his father, or what was his mother's settlement, name or condition...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: A Ass, A Idiot | 1/7/1929 | See Source »

...Mann raised her hands. . . . "How comes he to have any name at all then...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: A Ass, A Idiot | 1/7/1929 | See Source »

...beadle drew himself up with great pride, and said, "I invented it. ... We name our foundlings in alphabetical order. The last was a S,-Swubble, I named him. This was a T,-Twist, I named him. The next one as comes will be Unwin and the next Zwilkins...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: A Ass, A Idiot | 1/7/1929 | See Source »

...They say that Poincare told Chiappe to raid the peep shows because the Government thought they were giving Paris a bad name. Most of them were run by Algerians or Levantines or Greeks. Of course Chiappe hasn't interfered with the regular, licensed-maisons kept and patronized by the French themselves. He has been out after the tourist show places...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Vanderbilts, Letellier & Gwynne | 1/7/1929 | See Source »

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