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Word: namee (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...sentences are too involved, and far too often there is a decided incoherence. One of the stories, called "Adolescence," seems in a fair way to present certain observations on that state when it is mangled beyond hope of success by the roundabout method of presentation. Another, "Wedding March" by name, comes considerably nearer to achieving...

Author: By J. H. S., | Title: Some Early Autumn Novels | 10/8/1928 | See Source »

...Willebrandt was not alone in the public eye. Newshawks penetrated to the village of Lomita, suburb of Los Angeles, to interview and photograph a schoolteacher named Arthur F. Willebrandt, 40 years old, with a pompadour. Court records show that Arthur F. Willebrandt divorced "M. Elizabeth Willebrandt" in 1925. The disguised name was Mrs. Willebrandt's idea. Mr. Willebrandt's grounds were amicable. He charged desertion after they had been separated some eight years. She did not contest the suit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Worker Willebrandt | 10/8/1928 | See Source »

Smart U. S. citizens who have been fooled when attempting to pronounce the name of Baron Dalziel commonly suppose that most Englishmen utter it correctly. No supposition could be more false...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Triumph of Wrong | 10/8/1928 | See Source »

...Well!" said the wench, opening the door two inches, "what name...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Monniker | 10/8/1928 | See Source »

Village folk of Kirkcaldy in Scotland and of Wooler, on the Scottish border, were discouraged last week by this Triumph of Wrong, and vexed that the fine old name of "Dee-el" has been citified and Londonized into "Dal-zeel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Triumph of Wrong | 10/8/1928 | See Source »

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