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Word: perhapses (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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Dr. Richards's presence is indeed comforting, but if his zeal continues unabated, we fear that the Yale game won't end until midnight. And with Albie Booth perhaps running wild in the dark, Harvard's chances--well, you can draw your own conclusions. --Boston Herald.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Crepuscular Cavorting | 11/19/1929 | See Source »

Such an electoral law as that now in force in Mexico, which makes the first nine voters to reach the polling booth into an electoral committee with supervision over the voting is morally certain in a country of the temperament of Mexico to result in outbreaks and rioting. Perhaps if...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FIESTA | 11/19/1929 | See Source »

At such positive, commanding words Deputies of the Right pricked up their ears. The whole Chamber began to sense that here was another Strong Man, like the men who are his backers, Poincare and Clemenceau, both too old and sick to take the helm. With sound strategy, M. Tardieu shifted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: New Strong Man | 11/18/1929 | See Source »

*Even in Ernst Krenek's Jonny Spielt Auf, presented last year at the Metropolitan Opera House (TIME, Jan. 28) and before that in many a European capital, there was much discussion because Hero Jonny is supposed to be a black-face comedian. The Metropolitan authorities worried about letting Basso...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Robeson's Return | 11/18/1929 | See Source »

Critic Huneker's principal interests may not have been in the U. S., but his breezily enthusiastic criticism was undeniably native. Often blundering, always bold, he was a warm-hearted chronicler of adventure in the arts. Healthy exaggeration came naturally to him, made his sweeping statements sweep cleaner: "[Shaw] is...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Mencken's Huneker | 11/18/1929 | See Source »

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