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Word: namee (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...being too sober and too sane is evenly matched by the danger of being inane and hysterical. The distinction between the decent and the indecent, however, is much easier and requires no leaf critical genius. There are actions and trivolities which are inexcusable even when done in the name of boyish press and of good clean...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SOPHOMORIC PORNOGRAPHY | 10/20/1927 | See Source »

Unknown to most perusers of Harvard periodicals there has flourished for 17, years an embryo "Alumni Bulletin," a sheet bearing the hardly reconcilable hybrid name of "The Crimpoon...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "The Crimpoon", the 17 Year Old Periodical of the Class of 1900 Bobs Up Again--Published Only at "Decent" Intervals. | 10/19/1927 | See Source »

...name of Jacob Orgen to the scroll of those who have paid with their lives for attempting to advance their fellow man, who put their shoulder to the wheel of the wain of progress only to have the wain turn juggernaut. But in the Ghetto read the name as "Little Augie," a pioneer in a now overcrowded profession, who added finesse to the art of unmodified murder. He was the first to shudder at the crudeness of a Jimmie Valentine's jimmy and to shrug fastidious shoulders at the alien importations of Dr. Fu Manchu. One of the most minor...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE OLD GUARD DIES | 10/19/1927 | See Source »

Because of these recent developments in wireless communication, Secretary of Commerce Herbert C. Hoover recommended to the conference that it name itself International Radio Conference or Convention of International Radio Communication. Decisions on that point and a multitude of others*were to occupy the conference until mid November...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: International Radio | 10/17/1927 | See Source »

MISS HOUGH in "Not for Publication" presents a story of everyday life in an average town situated, presumably, on the Case. Pomanset is its name, Boston its exemplar of good taste, and it boasts of two daily papers, the Banner and the News. One could not reasonably expect extraordinary developments from such a situation. Miss Hough has not attempted the ridiculous...

Author: By David LANIER ., | Title: A Page of American Fiction | 10/17/1927 | See Source »

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