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Word: rabbited (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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Robert Nathan Has Written a Fantasy Without Sentimentalism The Story. Amy May was six years old. She lived on the top floor of No. 12 Barrow St. with her mother, Mrs. Holly, a one-eyed doll named Annabelle Lee and an agreeable young rabbit called Jane Demonstration. The mother was kind (her disposition was amiable and her bathtub had geraniums in it). But in spite of these blessings and the consolations of Christian Science as well, Amy May's happiness was incomplete, for she felt that Annabelle Lee should have a husband and she didn't know where...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Puppet Master* | 10/22/1923 | See Source »

...periods. He will slouch down on a couch, then tell you a story as though it were being shot at you from some great distance. The last time I saw him he was complaining of a diet that was being imposed upon him, which he insisted was nothing but "rabbit's food...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Irwin Brothers | 10/8/1923 | See Source »

...rabbit with a cork leg, wobbly ears and a false eye, its bodily structure fabricated of brown cotton, is paying a visit to Portland, Ore. The reason for this animal's visit is the opening of the annual Convention of the American Federation of Labor on Oct. 1. The rabbit is there as the mascot of the greatest cigarmaker in the world's history ? Samuel Gompers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: A Rabbit Keeper | 10/1/1923 | See Source »

...Rabbit, of whom the brown cotton bunny is a representation, was suggested years ago by Mr. Gompers' secretary, who detected a decided likeness between Uncle Remus' Br'er Rabbit and her chief. It was the play of wits between Br'er Rabbit and the enemies that sought to corner him that made the secretary think of the mental adroitness of Samuel Gompers in a similar situation. She found the rabbit "human looking, with a glint of knowingness in his eye, an all-pervading air of goodwill, an absence of bitterness in his make-up." So she purchased the cotton rabbit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: A Rabbit Keeper | 10/1/1923 | See Source »

...world's greatest cigar maker? not unlike a famed rabbit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Point with Pride: Oct. 1, 1923 | 10/1/1923 | See Source »

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