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Word: rogersgram (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1930
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Spoofy though all this sounded, it was fact: Clown Rogers had lunched and dined at the embassy, had sat with Mrs. Morrow and Mrs. Stimson, is accorded large license everywhere at the conference. One Rogersgram announced that the conference had spent "one solid week of doing nothing but attempting to pronounce the Japanese delegate Wakatsuki's name. Next week the agenda calls for the pronunciation of the Frenchmen's names...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Conference Asides | 2/3/1930 | See Source »

...Will Rogers, when suddenly he disappeared. Frantic Fox telegrams caught the renegade in Manhattan, did not stop him from sailing for the conference on the S. S. Bremen, world's fastest liner. "Tomorrow I lunch at the Embassy with Mr. Dawes," radioed Clown Rogers on reaching London. Another Rogersgram: "The American delegation arrived this afternoon and went into conference at the American bar and sunk a fleet of schooners without warning...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Faith, Hope and Parity! | 1/27/1930 | See Source »

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