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Word: righte (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Embarrassed by the Coolidge-Anyway movement, which last week cropped out right in his home State, President Coolidge issued further words on the subject, this time signing the letter himself instead of leaving it to Secretary Everett Sanders, as he did in March when Wyoming was importunate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: The Coolidge Week: Apr. 30, 1928 | 4/30/1928 | See Source »

...January, the trouble was soon put right. Last time it was a furnace pipe "gone flooey;" this time it was a blazing chimney. And, as in January, the men of Number Nine were well rewarded for their labors. Doffing helmets, wiping hands on shirt, they soon were regaled with coffee, sandwiches, perfectos, etc., etc., not to mention genial wisecracks and charming smiles, all served with a maximum of relish after the excitement by perhaps the most persuasive host and hostess in all U. S. politics-Speaker of the House and Mrs. Nicholas Longworth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICAL NOTES: Firemen's Favorite | 4/30/1928 | See Source »

...game in Philadelphia, Russell Wrightstone started as right fielder for the Phillies, moved to left field in the eighth, finished the game at first base...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Diamonds | 4/30/1928 | See Source »

...because it gave the monarch spindle legs, several of the Hanging Committee thought it would be kinder not to show these last ridiculous and dreadful pictures. Charles Sims had written twice to his agent, before killing himself, to ask that his paintings be sent to the Academy on the right day, accompanied by the titles he had given them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Vexed | 4/30/1928 | See Source »

...value. Because of these gifts from outside, the colleges have changed." The validity of this assumption may be questioned by those who devote weary hours to canvassing for endowment funds, or to careful budgeting so that even poor professorial salaries may be paid. And, even if Doctor Griggs were right, he fails to capitalize his statement, beyond the exceedingly vague deduction that "the colleges have changed...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: AND AGAIN, THE SCHOOLS | 4/30/1928 | See Source »

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