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Word: spokesmaned (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Duke Borea d'Olmo's 100 years there has never been such a royal wedding. As the bridal party left the church the rain changed to hail, but Duke Borea d'Olmo is invincible. "Yes, there was hail," his spokesman admitted to correspondents, "but that is not unlucky. We understand that the peasants of Assisi consider that St. Francis was pleased. They think of the hailstones as a sort of supernatural confetti, confetti di San Fracesco...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY-BULGARIA: Such a Wedding! | 11/3/1930 | See Source »

Last week from George Washington University (Washington, D. C.) came new and astonishing light on the Tramp Athlete. Eleven members of the freshman football squad appointed a spokesman-Carrol Robinson of Salem, N. J., crack tackle-to present to Coach James Ebenezer Pixlee their demands: that the wages which they earned as janitors, watchmen, waiters be given to them for spending money, that their board and tuition to which their earnings are normally applied be given them gratis. Coach Pixlee, unable to meet their requests, was considerably embarrassed when the cream of his team walked...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Food, Flop & Tuition | 11/3/1930 | See Source »

...Frederick Hermann Knubel, able, aggressive president of the United Lutheran Church in America, spoke this aside: "This is no quarrel between Catholics and ourselves, but between a Catholic spokesman and the President's message...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Catholics Insulted | 10/27/1930 | See Source »

...thousand years ago Virgil was born in Italy. He is remembered today by college board markers, by pedants who love the sonorous opening of the Aeneid, and by a cynical English playwright. While he lived he was the spokesman of Rome and the foremost poet of the world. Long after Virgil's death, John Bartlett in that hall of literary fame called Familiar Quotations remembered his name in three footnotes...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 2000 YEARS AFTER | 10/16/1930 | See Source »

...they concentrated on Dr. Fosdick, since he was a Baptist and since, there- fore, they might win a victory by ousting him from a Presbyterian pulpit without actually having a "heresy" trial in which they were by no means sure of even legalistic success. This made Dr. Fosdick the spokesman of non-Literalist Christianity. Upon him devolved the duty of presenting a "reasonable" Christianity which was not merely a milk & water diet of ethical excellencies. This crisis does not pass. And because it does not pass Dr. Fosdick can pack any church anywhere any time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Riverside Church | 10/6/1930 | See Source »

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