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Word: snaking (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...scheme set up by that sensible Scot, Prime Minister James Ramsay MacDonald, they would be paid the old wage, at least until the arbiters had made an award. When first news of this compromise reached such famed cotton towns as Manchester, Blackburn and Oldham, joyous craftsfolk paraded and snake-danced through their dingy slums, shouting "Strike's Off! STRIKE...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Strike's Off! | 8/26/1929 | See Source »

...confused with the Chicago Journal of Commerce, owned by Knowlton Lyman ("Snake") Ames, oldtime Princeton quarterback...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Christmas Present | 7/1/1929 | See Source »

...City Snake...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Jun. 10, 1929 | 6/10/1929 | See Source »

Perhaps, in time, his student body will follow the faculty to the foot of the tree of knowledge and to the exit from the garden of Eden, and leave Dr. Shields the snake and an apple core...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE SNAKE IN THE GRASS | 5/13/1929 | See Source »

...canceling debts all round" would be to leave the United States standing the whole loss. They can never see it that way! Their Government and their Peer-subsidized press has got them as hypnotized on that point as a basketful of baby rabbits under the eye of an Indian snake charmer. Let them keep quiet and pay what they owe- which is what they always pretend that they are doing. SITWELL R. PACKARD...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Apr. 29, 1929 | 4/29/1929 | See Source »

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