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Word: smithness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...will start by discussion for a third per cent ad valorem duty on imported birdseed. Taking the affirmative side will be Tom Heflin, with a birdseye view of the mistake of allowing the Vatican more territory and a motion to prevent Al Smith from building the highest building in New York. Then will be a two weeks' discussion on prohibition, followed by ten days of Arizona Senators denouncing the Boulder Dam. "And by Christmas you won't know whether the birds got any seed or not.'' The prophet, Mr. Will Rogers, was wrong. The tariff bill...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE TARIFF: Birdseed & Cat-Jumping | 9/16/1929 | See Source »

Louis Arico, barber to most of Tammany Hall, was awakened one morning at 5 a. m. by a trans-Atlantic telephone call. Speaking from Paris was William F. Kenny, self-made millionaire (contracting utilities), longtime friend of Alfred Emanuel Smith. Explained Mr. Kenny: "I haven't been able to get a decent haircut and I want to look presentable when I get back home." Customer Kenny (almost bald) instructed Barber Arico to sail on the Leviathan, attend him in London with shears, clippers.* Estimators estimated that Mr. Kenny's haircut would cost him some $2,000 ? more than...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Sep. 16, 1929 | 9/16/1929 | See Source »

Cults. Belonging to a cult is an evidence of abnormal mentality, found Smith's William Sentman Taylor. Belonging "reveals simplicity and mental inertia, the tendency to follow leaders and crowds, lack of critical faculty, especially experimental...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Psychologists | 9/16/1929 | See Source »

...ESCAPE-Edward H. Smith- Macmillan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: How To Break Prison | 9/16/1929 | See Source »

...above liberty-lovers and many another Author Smith writes with full sympathy, a modern criminological attitude and a sense of what thrills. Presumably, few convicts will be allowed to read the book...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: How To Break Prison | 9/16/1929 | See Source »

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