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Word: peels (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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Died. Col. William Lawson Peel. 77, banker, music lover; of heart failure; in Atlanta. What Otto H, Kahn is to New York, what Samue1 Insull is to Chicago, Colonel Peel has been to Atlanta...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Feb. 14, 1927 | 2/14/1927 | See Source »

...Robert Peel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Gladstone's Seraglio | 2/7/1927 | See Source »

...twelve, my husband played in the orchestras of several Russian vaudeville companies that were better than the Chauve Souris." True to this honest origin, Mr. Sokolov is described as "playing poker?either stud or draw?when the boys come in for a game on a Saturday night, peel off their coats . . . and Mrs. Sokolov puts the coffee on to perk and fixes up a snack...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Red Rhapsody | 1/31/1927 | See Source »

Good sports, Their Royal Highnesses laughingly took a thorough sousing. A tennis party followed on shore, then tea at which the Duke plucked a ripe orange from a nearby tree and ate it, remarking at the stinging taste experienced on biting into ripe orange peel Finally the royal party were sprayed again as they put-putted two miles out to the Renown which promptly up-anchored for the Panama Canal and Australia (TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Duke Stung | 1/24/1927 | See Source »

Excitedly the figure in the rawhide boots advanced: "You mean Black Jack* Pershing. Well, shake hands with your old private that used to peel potatoes for you. Yes, Sir, General-in the Sioux Indian campaign, buck private in Seventh Cavalry at Fort Niobrara. Black Jack himself! Yes, sir, all the ducks you want. I'll be danged...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Black Jack | 1/17/1927 | See Source »

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