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Word: rounde (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...underneath the curtain was a rack of beautiful silver hip flasks and the word went round they were filled with Scotch or something and 'help yourself.' A considerable number of the gentlemen there did help themselves. . . . Senator Smoot was present . . . and was as much disgusted with that booze party as I was. I do not want to put any intimation that he took one of those flasks or used liquor because he did not. . . . Senator Gooding [of Idaho, since deceased] did not take one of those hip flasks and neither did I. As to whether the other boys did, they...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PROHIBITION: Silver Flasks | 11/18/1929 | See Source »

Situated in Lemhi National Park, Custer County, 50 miles from the famed Craters of the Moon, Mt. Borah, unlike its namesake in Washington, is white-crested the year round, cold, unapproachable, terribly silent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE STATES: Mt. Borah | 11/18/1929 | See Source »

...city before England had a Throne. In return for all this glory, to which he is elected for a term of only one year, the Most Worshipful the Lord Mayor is expected to spend three times his salary of $50,000 in banquets, pageants, shows. The new Lord Mayor, round and smiling Sir William Waterlow (not Waterloo), joint head of the potent printing firm of Waterlow & Sons, Ltd., spent at least $25,000 of his "pay" last week...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Pomp After Brass | 11/18/1929 | See Source »

...From one window of the coach peeped the Civic Mace, out of the other stuck the Civic Sword. Along in glory on the back seat sat Most Worshipful Sir William, his robes of scarlet, black and gold, a cocked hat on his head and his heavy chain of office round his neck. In his hand he held a bouquet of sweet smelling herbs (hygienic relic of the Great Plague...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Pomp After Brass | 11/18/1929 | See Source »

...match of the second round of the preliminary College squash tournament matches were completed yesterday, the favorites winning easily. The third round must be finished by Wednesday, or the players will be defaulted...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SECOND ROUND SQUASH TOURNEY ALMOST FINISHED | 11/18/1929 | See Source »

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