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Word: plums (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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Later he retired to devote his time to writing. "Thunder on the Left", his most popular book, won him his reputation as a writer of colorful fantasy. His earlier books, including a number of volumes of familiar essays, grouped under such titles as "Pipefuls". "Shandygaff" and "Plum Pudding", and brief whimsical tales like "The Haunted Bookshop", "Parnassus on Wheels" have won him a large circle of admirers...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CHRISTOPHER MORLEY TO LECTURE TOMORROW | 12/14/1927 | See Source »

...marrying a duke. Only after she has been taught the error of her snobbish ways and given an opportunity to register truly philosophic passion under half-closed eyelids, does she discover that her fiancé, Mr. Smith, is in reality the Duke of Westborough. Thereupon, morality and the sugar plum go down together...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: New Pictures: Jul. 4, 1927 | 7/4/1927 | See Source »

...might almost say wilfully, to overlook the fact that the librarian besides being feminine, was also American. And America, it will be remembered, is not a member of the League. Germany, on the other hand, has just joined and in reward for such good behaviour, richly deserves a plum or two. So argues Sir Eric. But telegrams beseeching and threatening continue to arrive...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: DESCENDANTS OF DU BARRY | 1/24/1927 | See Source »

...profound contempt for this uneasy little king, with his know-it-all air, and his face like a plum; what was more the king had touched him on a sensitive spot. All his life he was annoyed that people made him paint their faces and refused to give a guinea for his hayricks and his cottages. Portraiture was fashionable. Landscape was not. Well, one lived in the world; one painted portraits. Sir Joshua had done it; scuttling Romney did it; Thomas Lawrence got himself into the Royal Academy at 21 by doing it. Venuses and Adonises. Even the king managed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Arts: Pinkie | 12/6/1926 | See Source »

...listen, oldster, you can't eat your little sugar plum right...

Author: By D. G. G., | Title: THE CRIME | 12/3/1926 | See Source »

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