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Word: standings (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...consequence of this playful dissipation, the attitude of many of the people of Cincinnati today, I gather, toward those Elks is something similar to the position formally taken by Elkdom in convention assembled, toward the Bolsheviki. They would stand as "blocking the path of these invaders" to the freedom of their city in the future...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Aug. 1, 1927 | 8/1/1927 | See Source »

Blazing summer came early to Austria this year, and has continued with such fierce intensity that last week many Austrians were in the irritable state of people who have said too often: "I can't stand it! It's just...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AUSTRIA: Riots | 7/25/1927 | See Source »

...declared invalid." He said that "an official act need not be a lawful act to render the official liable but need only be official in form and done under the color of his office." Therefore the bribery indictments held good and Messrs. Fall and Doheny would have to stand trial under them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Paired Again | 7/18/1927 | See Source »

...They had no children, and, not dull, they encouraged a certain very zestful officer of the guards Baron Frieherr von Plettenburg-Mehrum, Plettenburg. When, in 1922, the Baron's wife sued him for divorce, she named Princess Charlotte-who was reported to have said blithely on the witness stand: "My husband knew everything. I swear it with the greatest possible pleasure...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: Virtuous Prince | 7/11/1927 | See Source »

Southern notables assembled last week at Fletcher, N. C., to sing a song and unveil a tablet to the song's author, Daniel Decatur Emmett, who, though he never took his stand or lived or died south of the Mason & Dixon line,* nevertheless composed both the words and music of "Dixie." Son of Ohio and buried there, Composer Emmett is the adopted son of all "Dixieland." Yet the scene last week in the cemetery of Calvary Episcopal Church at Fletcher ("outdoor Westminster Abbey of the South") was the first of their kind; the tablet, Composer Emmett's first...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Grumble, Tablet | 7/11/1927 | See Source »

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