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Word: occasionals (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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Through the double glass doors of the White House, past the expressionless Negro footmen, into the ultimate social sanctum of the land, there passed one afternoon last week a slender, middle-aged invited guest wearing an afternoon dress of capri blue chiffon, a grey coat trimmed in moleskin, a small...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RACES: 'Delighted | 6/24/1929 | See Source »

It is not often that the library has occasion to start a wholly new classification, but this has been made possible this year by a gift of several hundred finely printed books, made by philip Hofer, '21. The library has for at least two decades had an active interest in...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Winship Reviews Recent Acquisitions Exhibited in Widener Treasure Room; Good Fortune Features Current Year | 6/18/1929 | See Source »

Lord Privy Seal "Jim" Thomas, domestic, fun loving, is the most colorful character in the new Cabinet. Famed is his Welsh-plus-Cockney accent, his fondness for smoking room stories. Londoners chuckled last week recalling the occasion when as Colonial Secretary in 1924 he was anxiously interviewed by ultra Conservative...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Only Fundamental Question | 6/17/1929 | See Source »

Biggest news of the week to Rio de Janeiro editors was neither politics, crime nor disaster, but the arrival in the U. S. of Miss Olga Bergamini De Sa, "Miss Brazil," for an international beauty contest to be held June 8-12 in Galveston, Tex. Shouldering other matter from Rio...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BRAZIL: Petals Over Olga | 6/10/1929 | See Source »

Mr. W. O. MeGeehan took occasion yesterday to note down in his own widely syndicated style his impressions of the action of the French Lawn Tennis association in reestablishing M. Forst as an amateur. Apparently this happy outcome was reached after the offender had handed over the tainted francs not...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A MODEST PROPOSAL | 6/4/1929 | See Source »

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