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Word: summonses (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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Rutgers College boys refused to be suppressed. The bell in old Queens Building did not peal its 8 o'clock summons. Authorities investigated, found the clapper stolen, found also a note: "Ye old tradition. 4:10 a. m."

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Again, Restraint | 1/30/1928 | See Source »

Popular. Two other folk tales about President Coolidge came out during the week. One tale was that, when asked what he would do after retiring to Vermont, he replied: "Well, for a year or two I am going to whittle." The other tale: A taxi-driver drew up at the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: The Coolidge Week: Nov. 21, 1927 | 11/21/1927 | See Source »

leaned forward from the back seat of his Lincoln limousine, which had been halted in Matawan, N. J., by Policeman Sproul, to answer the policeman's question. Certainly, replied Mr. Rockefeller, the officer might stand on his runningboard and his chauffeur ("Phillips") might overtake a speeder the officer desired...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Sep. 12, 1927 | 9/12/1927 | See Source »

Should Mr. Blackmer's stay in France be prolonged beyond the date of the Fall-Sinclair trial, set to open in the District of Columbia Supreme Court on Oct. 17, his absence may cost him $100,000. For in 1925 Senator Thomas J. Walsh of Montana, head of the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CABINET: Lines Lacking | 7/4/1927 | See Source »

The French Government despatched a courteous summons last the week to arch the arch Communist of Royalist France ? and of the respectively, Royalist editor Leon Daudet newspaper L'Action Française and the leading Communist Deputy, Marcel Cachin. These gentlemen were told that they must at once set a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Invited to Jail | 6/13/1927 | See Source »

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