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Word: slating (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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Opposite as sunny Rome and slate-hued London are the anti-feminist theories of Dictator and Earl. The Roman by sheer ardor would explode the very notion that a "new" or "modern" woman can exist. The Londoner, icily accepting modern woman's existence, defines her function as competition with man, and brands her as a failure at her chosen game...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: Women v. Dictator & Earl | 7/23/1928 | See Source »

...honest, put his signature to a document pledging more than $1,000,000 of his inheritance to repay stockholders of his dead tabloids. Said he: "I am giving up my heritage purely as a moral obligation. Legally, I no longer have any debts, but I wish to wipe the slate clean...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Honest Vanderbilt | 7/9/1928 | See Source »

Nominee Curtis also called and with this visit the Hoover campaign for election formally began. The Hoover-Curtis conference, which lasted several hours, was for the purpose of drafting a new slate of officers for the National Republican Committee. Observers estimated that this conference consisted of about 98% Hoover decision, plus 2% Curtis suggestion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: REPUBLICANS: Hooverizing | 7/2/1928 | See Source »

...Slate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Jun. 18, 1928 | 6/18/1928 | See Source »

...that June, the convention month, is here, may I submit the following slate for your consideration? With this bunch conducting our affairs for the next four years, I am quite sure our institutions would never suffer again...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Jun. 18, 1928 | 6/18/1928 | See Source »

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