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Word: staffs (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Such entertainments are provided by members of the staff at various Yellowstone camps. The staffs are composed for most part of college students, male & female, of whom 700 are chosen from twice that number of applicants; famed for their sprightly behavior, they are called, collectively, "the savages...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Coolidge Week | 9/5/1927 | See Source »

...entertaining and understandable from cover to cover. ("We cannot promise you George Bernard Shaw every week but we do promise you a group of contributors who have mastered not only music but the English language and an editorial staff that knows how to make a magazine look interesting as well...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: At Geneva | 9/5/1927 | See Source »

...Springs, the President inquired for Badger Clark, author of one of his favorite poems, "The Cowboy's Prayer."- The luncheon hosts were embarrassed, not having invited Poet Clark, whom they at once sent for, whose eloquent mother later gave the President a U. S. flag, equipped with staff...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: The Coolidge Week: Aug. 29, 1927 | 8/29/1927 | See Source »

...Paris it was the same. Bustled to their hotels on the first evening by efficient staff workers, the advance legionaries at once put on some of those bright-colored caps which characterize a U. S. convention anywhere and tell the strange world whence the wearers hail. Then they issued into the evening streets, reconnoitred in restaurants, newsstands, dance halls, bars. Or they just ambled along the luminous boulevards grinning at one another, at Parisians, at Paris. Without the slightest hesitation, with thrown flowers, "Vive! Vive!" kisses and embraces, Paris grinned back. Unaware that any of their visitors would come...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: The Legion Abroad | 8/29/1927 | See Source »

...assimilated the more feverish, spotty metropolitan spectacle-down to the contents of a drug-store cowboy's frayed wallet, stage door argot and the private thoughts of night club Neros-is another story. She worked on metropolitan newspapers, married T. Stewart Brush of the New York Herald Tribune staff, whose father, Lewis Brush, is a press potentate in Ohio...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Fiction: Aug. 29, 1927 | 8/29/1927 | See Source »

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