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Word: necker (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...realm of history and literature, the Amy Lowell collection of autographs is outstanding: letters from the correspondence of Madame de Stael, George Sand, Victor Hugo, Goethe, Rousseau, Voltaire, Lord Nelson to Lady Hamilton, Marie Antoinette to Necker, and, finally, a document signed by Marie de Medici compose one of the finest collections of signatures in the country. In addition to these the seeker for historical backgrounds may find a book belonging at one time to Madame de Pompadour containing statistics concerning the French army, as well as books characteristically bound and bearing the arms of Louis XIV and Napoleon Bonaparte...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: COLLECTIONS and CRITIQUES | 9/28/1929 | See Source »

Majestic-"The Great Necker". People coming back from a summer's vacation probably think this applies to them, but it happens to be the name of a play...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CRIMSON PLAYGOER | 9/21/1928 | See Source »

...Great Necker. A citizen of Manhattan, wearing a $35 suit of "tweed" clothing, bought tickets to The Great Necker. He noted with pleasure that it was "a new comedy of modern life." For him, this statement was not contradicted as its ageless plot unfolded. He laughed to see the blatantly promiscuous bachelor of forty-five summers getting engaged to a sixteen-year-old in the innocent delusion that she was unsophisticated as well as sweet. He chuckled with delight to see her mother, a movie censor, drinking strong fruit punch in the assurance that it was denatured grape-juice. When...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Mar. 19, 1928 | 3/19/1928 | See Source »

...Protheroe is the midwestern brother of Stover's immortal ally, Doc MacNooder. Breezy, flippant, crass, unquenchable, he now, in the day of elective courses, appears as the perennial senior; and, rough clothes and manners having gone out, as campus: fashion-plate and ladies' man (snake, fusser, petter, necker, lizard, sheik, as you will). He retains the MacNooder eloquence and syncopates it, polishing his quips for quotation, studying his audience. MacNooder's political finesse is his, refined and extended even unto sorority elections. His rostrum is at the mass meeting, in front of the grandstand, on the Charleston...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Non-Fiction | 9/13/1926 | See Source »

Words like "flapper", "vamp", "necker" and what not insult countless ears besides those of Representative Branch of Florida until they come to be completely disregarded and overlooked. Thus, a nourished, they at last die out, but such protests as this suggested bill in Florida will only glorify and strengthen them. There are always people to cry for the right of the citizen to express himself in his own choice...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A MATTER OF TASTE | 5/4/1925 | See Source »

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