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Word: paged (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...dead husband's colleagues in the Senate. No message moved her more than a Senate message which came, not from a Senator, but from Richard L. ("Deacon") Riedel, a religiously-inclined boy commonly recognized in the Senate wing of the Capitol as Senator Willis' favorite Senate page...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: How Small a Place. . | 4/16/1928 | See Source »

...never grants interviews. While in Manhattan he lives at the Hotel Astor, but he likes Milan better. He always dines in his own apartment, eats little and preferably Italian food. Like Lord Rothermere and Il Duce (see page 18), he never smokes. He sleeps five hours a night, with his dog Pictiu, a Brussels griffon given him by Frances Alda, beside him in a basket. He shaves himself-and with a safety razor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Toscanininotes | 4/9/1928 | See Source »

...drives his own Hispano-Suiza when he is thinking fast. He works with, but often annoys, the police. Finally, he gets the murderer by applying the theory that a painting is a greater work of skill than a photograph. Shrewd readers should be able to spot the murderer on page 330; average readers on page 339; stupid readers on page...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Drawling Detective | 4/2/1928 | See Source »

...Louisiana levees. He also loved a Creole. When she refused to make an honest man of him, he started Leaves of Grass. (He thought "Leaves" sounded better than "Blades"' but the printer didn't.) He wove the names of a string of box cars upon a broad broken page, "caught the rhythm and made it more rhythmical." He was to spend the rest of his life rewriting Leaves of Grass...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NON-FICTION: Good Gray Poet | 4/2/1928 | See Source »

Having now disposed of all that is questionable in the issue, we may turn to a consideration of what is more typical of Lampy at his best. There are three bits of very pleasing verse: the opening rondeau; "A Ballade of Spring" with an appropriate page decoration, and also "Place Your Bets" which is set in the midst of a fine page decoration. Of these three, perhaps "Place Your Bets" takes the laurel owing to the fine adaptation of decoration to the subject and execution of the verse, which of itself is more than good. But "A Ballade of Spring...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: EASTER FINDS LAMPY IN NEW GRASS-GREEN DRESS | 4/2/1928 | See Source »

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