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Word: postcarded (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Naomi who resolves the impasse, by eloping suddenly with a sex-starved minister as far as Pittsburgh, where both commit prayerful suicide. This leaves Philip nothing to do but marry Mary and return to expiate something or other on the African postcard scene...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: VERSE | 8/1/1927 | See Source »

Sirs: Although I sent you yesterday postcard renewal of my subscription I ask you now to cancel it. Pp. 41-48* of the issue which came today were too much for me. Will pick you up occasionally to see it you have reformed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Apr. 11, 1927 | 4/11/1927 | See Source »

...leave. Winter visitors "miss the boat" (back to the U. S.) surprisingly often. Nassau is warm. Nassau is wet. The sun, striking through Nassau's clear ocean shallows to coral bottom, paints them a variety of shore-sea greens and blues to which not even a penny postcard can do justice. When the Munson liner Munargo anchors outside the bar-guarded harbor and the stubby tender puts out from town with homegoers, people on shore feel sorry for people on the tender. People on the tender feel sorry for themselves. They yearn, usually, for "just one more cocktail...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Last Swim | 2/7/1927 | See Source »

...Paris, last Week, one Gaston Goethe, redoubtable postcard peddling Alsace-Lorrainer, was jailed for assulting simultaneously a German who had called him a Frenchman and a Frenchman who had called him a German...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MISCELLANY: Honest Feit | 11/22/1926 | See Source »

...postcard.... "Your friend, (Signed) Mussolini Benito...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Bricklayer's Autograph | 8/30/1926 | See Source »

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