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Word: panes (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...incess Lilybet's" small, creamy elbows rested on the window ledge. Sober, fussy, coatless, were the Lascelles boys, clad in tan shirts, maroon cravats. Princess Mary wore pink. The Queen, wearing blue and the royal pearls, was vexed by a noisome blue bottle fly on the window pane. Taking a sheet of paper she squashed the offender, after four tries. Edward of Wales talked with his father, not his mother. When Viscount Lascelles lingered in the window, a voice in the crowd chirped: "'Oo wants to see 'IM?'' After ten minutes the Queen spoke decisively...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: The Crown | 6/3/1929 | See Source »

...situation was that the Federalistas in Juarez were waging a hopeless battle against Insurrectos under General Miguel Valles. A stray bullet fired by an Insurrecto traversed the Rio Grande and broke a window pane on the 13th floor of El Paso's First National Bank. Also in El Paso, a two-year-old U. S. girlchild, Miss Lydia Roberts, was killed by a second stray bullet, and a third despatched "the most popular U. S. citizen in Juarez," jovial "Teddy" Barnes, bartender of the famed Mint Cafe. With a bank, a baby and a bartender all involved, General George...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MEXICO: Again, Mexitl | 3/18/1929 | See Source »

Last week, while George V, dreadfully thin and pale, lay watching white fingers of frost on his window pane at Bognor. Edward of Wales, acting for the King-Emperor, conducted his first state levee...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Royalty | 3/11/1929 | See Source »

...like that-unaffected, gay. She lives at the St. Regis Hotel with her husband, two maids. For recreation she loves the movies, goes sometimes to three shows in succession, sits enthralled, comes home to mimic all the players. She likes to stand at shop windows, nose pressed against the pane, to look at glittering things. But for jewels, save pearls and emeralds, she cares little, dresses simply always and in perfect taste. She likes potatoes, dumplings, sausages and cabbage, can cook them all herself and turn a handspring when she has finished eating. She hates tobacco smoke and being interviewed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Egyptian Helen | 11/12/1928 | See Source »

...trousers) 6.50 Taxi to Ferroni's 2.10 Refreshments at Ferroni's 20.00 A6. A8, Booth Theatre 17.00 Taxi to Booth Theatre 3.20 Lady in A4, Booth Theatre (settled out of court) 23.40 Lady in A8, Booth Theatre (Heart Balm) 7.70 Taxi to Madison Avenue and 84th St. 1.40 1 Pane glass (billed) 2.15 1 Broken heart (cooed) .63 Smelling salts for hostess 1.00 Refreshments 5.00 (Entry illegible) 33.00 Refreshments 5.00 Taxi, 2 blocks, protested by driver .15 Received from driver for vacating cab 2.00 Milk, wagon to 5th Ave. and 43rd St. 10.00 2 bottles Grade A. .40 1 Riding...

Author: By R. L. W., | Title: THE CRIME | 1/12/1928 | See Source »

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