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Word: stooped (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...were king-ah love, if I were king-What tributary nations would I bring To stoop before your sceptre and to swear Allegiance to your lips and eyes and hair, Beneath your feet what treasures I would fling-The stars should be your pearls upon a string, The world a ruby for your finger ring And you should have the sun and moon to wear If I were king...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Many a Mugful | 10/1/1928 | See Source »

MORTAL STAB TO AUSTRIA!! screamed virtually every newspaper in Vienna, except the Reichspost, circumspect Roman Catholic organ of tall, stern, stoop-shouldered, beak-nosed Monsignor Ignaz Seipel, Chancellor of Austria...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AUSTRIA: Mortal Stab | 7/23/1928 | See Source »

...shiny Lincoln sedan. Another car (with Illinois license plates) slid up behind. Four men opened fire at the back of Uale's head, then drew alongside and shot off the side of his face. The Lincoln careened off the street, through a hedge, against a brick stoop. The Illinois car vanished...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Big Tim | 7/9/1928 | See Source »

...flats of India where he had been born, far from the paunchy side of famed 80-year-old Dr. Annie Besant who had raised him to be "a new world leader," was standing upon the hilltop, chanting a Vedic hymn; he carried a flaming torch which, with a graceful stoop, he applied to a pile of carefully prepared faggots. The faggots went up in a cloud of smoke and flame; Krish-namurti's disciples, of whom a thousand sat upon the slope of the hill, drew a breath of wonder-and listened while their leader spoke to them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: High City | 6/4/1928 | See Source »

Good taste and a proper sense of proportion are not to be expected in newspapers of this type. But when they repeatedly stoop to such methods of attracting attention, and advertise indecent tales of their own concoetion as being typical of university life, they cease to deserve the confidence of the public Yale News

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE PRESS | 5/21/1928 | See Source »

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