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Word: rangeful (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...this guy E. W. A. K.? What a fool he must be." The wastebasket moved a trifle. "These guys sure do bawl me out." Another letter capped the debris in the basket. The telephone rang...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "Bossy" Gillis Is Mayor of Newburyport When He Answers the Telephone-"Big Gun" Fires Volley at National Politics | 1/25/1928 | See Source »

...office. Late in the afternoon he began dictating the speech he will deliver to the Pan-American Congress in Havana .next fortnight. After dark, he joined Mrs. Coolidge and drove to Sherman Square, behind the Treasury Building. Thousands of Washingtonians awaited them. While motors tooted and church bells rang and the Marine Band played Cantique de Noël, the President touched a button and lit up the Capital's Christmas tree. Soon after, the Washington throngs trooped into the White House grounds to sing Christmas carols around the lighted porte-cochère. President & Mrs. Coolidge, John Coolidge and a choir...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: The Coolidge Week: Jan. 2, 1928 | 1/2/1928 | See Source »

...then went to look for the mate. By the time the mate saw the fire, it had crept farther; he stared in be wilderment and then spoke to the Captain through a tube. Suddenly every one on the General Slocum knew that the boat was on fire. Alarms rang and passengers started to strap life preservers to their waists. Captain van Schaick waggled his head in perplexity and steered for an island two miles away...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CATASTROPHE: Death of van Schaick | 12/19/1927 | See Source »

...serious consideration in the ring. Matched against one Tommy Tracy in St. Louis, he escaped to a saloon. Hours afterward his backers found him; shoved him into a buggy; raced for the arena. A train hit the buggy, killing two. Griffo stumbled into the ring drunk, dazed. The bell rang. Griffo, fumbling a towel, swayed to the centre of the ring, bent down to spread the towel. Tracy, ignorant of the rules of the handkerchief trick, hit him a shattering blow behind the ear. Griffo was out. Griffo swelled to 235 pounds before he died. For years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Death of Griffo | 12/19/1927 | See Source »

Tremont -- "Rang Tang," 8.15 o'clock. An effective and pleasantly unpretentious revue...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BOARDS AND BILLBOARDS | 12/13/1927 | See Source »

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