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Word: straw (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Signalizing the advent of summer weather, the President went forth on his daily stroll wearing a straw...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: The White House Week: May 24, 1926 | 5/24/1926 | See Source »

Infernal villain ; insane ; insolvent ; insulting to ladies; ironical praise (such as to call an attorney "an honest lawyer" when the opposite is implied) ; itchy old toad ; liar ; mere man of straw ; obituary of a living person...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Glossary | 5/17/1926 | See Source »

...five-year-old kingdom of Jugoslavia,* motored gaily last week through the ominously famed city of Sarajevo. There he saw a chimney sweep-in the Balkans an omen of good luck. Smiling, His Majesty stopped the royal motor, offered the chimney sweep 100 dinars ($1.76) for two straws from his grimy brush. Astonished and suspicious, the chimney sweep refused to sell even one straw. Outraged, the royal chauffeur revealed his master's identity: "Louse of a chimney sweep! Do you defy your King...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: YUGOSLAVIA: Chimney Sweep | 5/10/1926 | See Source »

Carefully His Majesty enfolded the second straw in his purse. When he returned to the royal castle at Belgrade, he gave it to a lad of three, towheaded, bonny, already a personage. He was Peter Alexander's eldest son, heir to the throne of the Kraljevina Srba, Hrvata, Slovenaea (the Kingdom of the Serbs, Croats and Slovenes: Jugoslavia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: YUGOSLAVIA: Chimney Sweep | 5/10/1926 | See Source »

...whom did King Alexander give a straw...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Quiz: May 10, 1926 | 5/10/1926 | See Source »

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