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Word: strongely (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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Next day 500,000 persons watched as the coffin was drawn upon a gun carriage to the grave. At the cemetery President Cosgrave was so overcome by emotion and the excessive heat that he collapsed upon the ground. Strong arms raised him up. The service was majestically completed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Brave Funeral | 7/25/1927 | See Source »

...francs ($145,000) for the Legionnaires' entertainment and decreed the issuing of a special postage stamp to be licked by Legionnaires and stuck upon their letters home. Many of these stamps, valid for the convention period only, will be treasured by thrifty recipients, locked away in strong boxes, brought out decades hence and bartered for gain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Parliament Rises | 7/25/1927 | See Source »

Madame X. Seventeen years ago this drama was seen through tears, to the accompaniment of sniffles. Even today, strong men in the audience rise quickly after the last curtain to pull their hats down over their faces. Sophisticated younger people seem to be unaffected, probably critical of the necessity, on the part of a young lady who has deserted her husband, of going straight to harlotry and ether. This the heroine does, returning to France to see her boy whom she left 20 years ago. To save his reputation, she commits murder. The boy is assigned to defend...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Jul. 18, 1927 | 7/18/1927 | See Source »

People who had found that they could not go to sleep without reading some new adventure of Mr. Holmes will welcome the news that Author Sir Arthur has made the "discovery of another forgotten notebook of Holmes in a strong box that had been hidden away for years." The twelve stories in The Case Book are conclusive evidence that, despite his dubious doctrines on spiritualism, Sir Arthur has lost none of his persuasiveness in inductive yarn-spining...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Fiction: Jul. 18, 1927 | 7/18/1927 | See Source »

...write the story of a great civilization one must know where the electricity of existence has darted, one must know where the dynamic force of life has sparkled, and how, and why. All this eccentric and scattered heat produces the energy which makes a country flourish and grow strong. The huge engines of government are powered by insignificant fires, lighting a far-away gloom. In charting these fires history differs from documents, becomes imaginative literature...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Fiction: Jul. 18, 1927 | 7/18/1927 | See Source »

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