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Word: speake (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...similar to that used to catch a waiter's eye; and Premier Count Paul Teleki, chief of the Hungarian Boy Scouts, gave the three-fingered Boy Scout salute. Chief business of the opening session: a speech by Count Teleki in which he announced that Deputies' rights to speak would be curtailed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HUNGARY: Old Premier, New Salutes | 6/26/1939 | See Source »

Previously, H. Lane Blackwell, Jr. '39 had delivered the Ivy Oration to which President Conant referred, remarking that: "The Chief Marshal, Mr. Saltonstall, can speak for himself, but as far as I am concerned I can but repeat Falstaff's remark that while I, myself, am not funny, I am often times a source of with in other men. The Ivy Orator has proved that this afternoon...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Come On, Governor, Boys Will Be Boys! | 6/22/1939 | See Source »

...York, they lived next door to me in London. . . . The children's favorite playmate was their Uncle, the Prince of Wales. . . . Queen Elizabeth told me their uncle taught them American slang. . . . And I'll never forget the day the children came to lunch, hardly able to speak because their uncle had given them their first chewing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Radio Curtsies | 6/19/1939 | See Source »

...offered, and promptly accepted, a new job: president of Mutual Life Insurance Co. of New York, effective January 1. As head of the fifth largest insurance company (assets: $1,399,427,496), he will not only be able to use his genius for economy, but will be able to speak with nonacademic authority on economic issues that may be raised...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PERSONNEL: Versatile Lew | 6/19/1939 | See Source »

Three years ago, after a long career of dodging immigration officials and rubber-checking rich and high-born speak-easy acquaintances, Mike's luck ran out. After a short spell in jail, he skipped Manhattan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Buffet Supper | 6/19/1939 | See Source »

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