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Word: shuts (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Fascists in a tavern brawl near Loipersbach, the well and widely organized Socialist party ordered a "general strike" lasting 15 minutes. From 11:00 a. m. to 11:15 a. m. flower girls would not sell flowers, tram drivers would not drive their trams, many bank clerks banged shut their windows, and all telegraphs, telephones and radios were silent. Only taxicab drivers, irrepressible, defied the general strike order and buzzed back and forth with their fares...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AUSTRIA: Twin Strikes | 2/14/1927 | See Source »

...Lambrino screamed, clutched her side. Carol, vexed, rushed to the window, banged it shut and telephoned to the Prefect of Police. He demanded protection against such picketing by his morganatic wife and her son whose legitimacy he does not recognize. Soon two Parisian detectives were patrolling Carol's yard. When little Mircea came next day with his mother and shouted "Papa! Papa!" from the gate, the detectives told him to move...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUMANIA: 3 Women, 3 Children | 2/7/1927 | See Source »

...will duplicate or reverse last years splendid or regrettable performance. He goes on to tell the men without previous experience of Jo Zilch, who at the age of twelve was given up for dead and who at the age of twenty ran the hundred in ten seconds flat or shut out St. Timothy's or made the All American Team. He moralizes on the educational value of such effort and finally may tell the candidates that they are all going to have a great time together. But the big idea is work...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ADMIRABLE FUTILITY | 2/5/1927 | See Source »

...whole point of the book is to delight people who can understand that "Debussy is the wettest music ?passion done in silver point," and similar subtle apperceptions. Yet between subtlety and forced fancy even "understanding" readers will detect many a disheartening difference. The girl's face "banged shut." About babies: "There might be sky-blue ones, or indigo ones, or even some navy-blue ones." Lovers are close for a moment, and the episode calls to mind not merely Beatrice and Dante but Saint Paul and God! In short, The Green Forest is an enchanting spot badly messed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Fiction: Jan. 31, 1927 | 1/31/1927 | See Source »

...University Polo team took the lead in the division B indoor series when it shut out Battery A by an 11 1/2 to 0 score on Saturday night. The Crimson horsemen completely outclassed the can-oneers, showing a marked superiority in team work and shooting...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: POLO TEAM CANTERS TO EASY SHUT-OUT VICTORY | 1/31/1927 | See Source »

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