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Word: stricken (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...anything you may do, if you'll abandon that alien "tycoon" thing. Even TIME cannot pluck it from its comic opera setting in the mind of the English speaking world, and give it adequacy or dignity, by all too frequent use. Is good old United States so poverty stricken that you must lug this in? It grates-ugh! H. VAN ANTWERP Farmers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Aug. 26, 1929 | 8/26/1929 | See Source »

Eventually the "Wee Frees," canny and circumspect, passed a purely general resolution. "The Fourth Commandment," they indisputably proclaimed, "is binding with out exception. . . ." Conscience-stricken citizens thumbed their Bibles, read...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Great Ones of Earth | 8/26/1929 | See Source »

...When he knew all there was to know about horses, he became a trainer, trained for such men as the late great August Belmont, James R. Keene. finally for Mr. Whitney. "This is my last ride," said Trainer Rowe last week as he was being driven to the hospital, stricken with a heartattack. His "last ride" over. Saratoga flags were half-masted, the Whitney horses scratched from one day's sheets...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Saratoga | 8/12/1929 | See Source »

...Fred Albert Britten, wife of Illinois' Representative Britten, going abroad on the Leviathan with her husband, was stricken with appendicitis. While the engines were stopped for 52 minutes an operation was performed with five physicians in consultation. Arriving at Southampton, Mrs. Britten's condition was described as ''somewhat improved," but she could not leave the boat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Aug. 12, 1929 | 8/12/1929 | See Source »

...ranch he quickly told his daughter the rest of Mr. Ziegfeld's story?Ruby Keeler, pert star of Show Girl, third wife of Al ("Mammy") Jolson, had been mysteriously stricken during a performance. With a twinge of sympathy for Ruby, a burst of joy for her own good fortune, Dorothy Stone ran to pack...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: Show Girls | 8/12/1929 | See Source »

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