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Word: namee (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...moral: Name the commodity in the slogan. "Let the Ivory Twins do your Work." "When you see an Arrow, Think of Smith Brothers Cough Drops." "If it isn't a Whoozis, It isn't a Whatsitsname...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Dec. 31, 1928 | 12/31/1928 | See Source »

...Huitramanaland or Great Ireland. Portuguese sailors supplied data for a map which showed the islands in 1502. The Spanish arrived in 1512 and called the broad-beached land they found the "Golden Islands." It was from one of their missions, San José de Zapalo, that Sapeloe's name is derived...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Sapeloe | 12/31/1928 | See Source »

Interviewed was chief Rabbi Doctor Sonnenschein. He said that, alas, there were poor Jews, that the home for the aged was overcrowded, that $100,000 would bring sunshine (which is what Doctor Sonnenschein's name means) to many an unhappy soul. Perhaps there was a trace of anti-Semitism in the municipal council? But since the council's word was evidently legally final, it seemed last week that no Jew, rich or poor, would enjoy part...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLAND: Poor Jews | 12/31/1928 | See Source »

When wound up, Les Moineaux Avares pick at pebbles with uncanny realism. Massacre! is a re-named old-fashioned toy-merely a cardboard shooting gallery in which figures of men and women may be laid low with a popgun. For some occult reason there seems to be selling magic in the new name...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Lindbergh & Massacre! | 12/31/1928 | See Source »

...light refueling plane hovered above her and pumped down gasoline and oil through hoses, dropped food with a rope. The preliminary test worked. So the Fokker and a refueling plane set out for Los Angeles where the break-down tests of men or motors will take place. The name of the Fokker is whimsically Question Mark...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AERONAUTICS: Flights, Fliers: Dec. 31, 1928 | 12/31/1928 | See Source »

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