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Word: signed (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...flock the archbishop gave instructions how to perform self-marriage without benefit of priest: "Prepare in your house an altar. Place upon it some image of your devotion. Upon your bended knees make the sign of the cross and recite the Lord's Prayer, Ave Maria and the Credo. Pray to the Lord Jesus Christ and give thanks to God. Then standing before the altar the bridegroom will say 'I - before God and witnesses declare I wish to receive for my wife Señ0rita -as the Holy Roman Catholic Church prescribes.'" The girl says the equivalent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Self-Marriage | 3/14/1927 | See Source »

After 50 years service as a University dormitory Beck Hall is to be sold. Yesterday morning the "For Sale" sign appeared under written by the name of Sleeper and Dunlop, real estate agents. It has always been in private hands and many times before has been on the point of being demolished. Once the alumni contributed to a fund to avoid its destruction...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BECK HALL ON SALE AFTER 50 YEARS AS COLLEGE BUILDING | 3/12/1927 | See Source »

...ride, and the next minute you have to give some Chinese jade a bath." Then a really potent epigram was coined. Suddenly turning from the tub in which the jades and vases were being bathed, he shook a pipe-stem at the Venus. "I've seen lots of signs in museums in my time, but I guess they ought to stick a 'Hands Off' sign on her all right...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "Hands Off" Sign Belongs on Venus de Milo, Declares Mr. Hendricks Describes Discobolus as Waiter Heaving Dishes | 3/9/1927 | See Source »

Said the Baltimore Sun (Democratic): "Mr. Coolidge did not merely refuse to sign the measure. He kicked it out of the White House with as strong denunciation of its provisions in sum and in detail as has been heard in or out of Washington during the months of its consideration. . . . That is what the country wanted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FARMERS: Veto | 3/7/1927 | See Source »

...street and clear to the man in the gutter. Had such a note been addressed to the U. S., French, or Italian Government by the British it would have constituted an insult, only to be avenged by war. Paradoxically the mild, peace-propagating Sir Austen Chamberlain was obliged to sign this note as Foreign Secretary. His was another slice of the Cabinet Compromise (see below...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Blatancy & Moderation | 3/7/1927 | See Source »

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