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Word: read (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...read in TIME some time (and several TIMES) ago, that Allan Hoover would not graduate this year because he was away from his studies on his father's South American good-will tour? Yet notice the picture and legend which I clip from the Boston Herald of June 30. Explain please...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Able Allen | 7/15/1929 | See Source »

...MacDonald birthplace was a-but-and-a-ben, a two-room structure with a thatched roof, one door.-ED. Judge Lynch Sirs: I have just read Negro White's "Judge Lynch." What a dirty lot of lies. I have read a number of articles by both white and black, but never has my blood boiled before. I think if anyone ever needed a coat of tar and feathers its the author of "Judge Lynch." Yes, we do lynch the Negro in the South. Some day the North will be sorry they didn't try the same cure...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Jul. 8, 1929 | 7/8/1929 | See Source »

...Harvey called down the sarcasm of the U. S. press by reverting to them in 1921, has a U. S. Ambassador to England failed to wear silk knee-breeches to Court. Ambassador Dawes, Chicago hustler, went in his none-too-neat dress suit with long trousers. Next day he read with relish in London's conservative Morning Post...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Canonibus Dawsiensis | 7/8/1929 | See Source »

...received his diploma from Viscount Grey of Falloden, Chancellor of the University, statesman, bird-lover, fly-caster. In presenting the diploma Viscount Grey recited a long discourse in Latin ripe with many a classical pun. Myopic, he could not read the speech, was forced to memorize it. Toward the end his memory failed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Canonibus Dawsiensis | 7/8/1929 | See Source »

...Offalitch. Conductor Harry Irving Phillips of the "Sun Dial" in the New York Evening Sun, did not think one way or another about the signature attached to some contributed verses he printed in early April, entitled "To a wife about to start on a shopping tour." The last stanza read: So when you dare declare to me You will not buy a hat Today-yon lie and know you lie!-I will not credit that! The signature was: "WILFRED J. FUNK...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Rhymester Funk | 7/8/1929 | See Source »

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