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Word: neatest (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...soul amidst the pottage. The France lectures also summarize succinctly the complicated maze of Rabelais' writing with inclusion of quips and incidents that are among the most amusing and the least vulgar. The neatest summary and the most judicious excerpts could give no conception of the texture of Rabelais' wit ; but they point to a profitable perusal of the 1.021 close-packed pages that comprise the works of the original Rabelaisian, now available in one volume...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Vagabond Monk | 4/22/1929 | See Source »

...Athanase Vagliano, on the golden Riviera at minute, lovely Roquebrune. Everyone of the smart world has at least passed the place. As your "Blue Train" from Paris halts momentarily at Monte Carlo and then chuffs on to Menton, the prettiest station through which it speeds, the one with the neatest garden and the fairest palms, is Roquebrune. In the great house just visible through dense foliage lived ''The Greek," Europe's "Prince of Gamblers," and there he died?rich...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Enemy of Women | 2/4/1929 | See Source »

...debut on the stage. For the antics of Columnist Grouse all critics had a pretty word to say. Walter Winchell of the New York Evening Graphic called him SourCrouse while the Actor-Journalist's wife, Alison Smith, able critic for the New York World, paid her husband the neatest compliment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Sep. 10, 1928 | 9/10/1928 | See Source »

...neatest tee you ever...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Point With Pride: Jul. 13, 1925 | 7/13/1925 | See Source »

...came to devote his attention, rather actively, to the Harvard School of Business Administration. The S. B. A. got on Lampy's nerves, as it has on those of some older Harvard men. A "Business School Number" is the result, and the college community is the gainer by the neatest chaffing we have had for an academic generation...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "BOOST THE BUSINESS SCHOOL" SAYS LAMPY | 1/30/1925 | See Source »

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