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Word: supplee (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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Spain. "Oh, please don't set the piano on fire!" is heard now in every dance or recreation hall where Spaniards gather to drink hot milk and coffee, to sip gravely a green or golden chartreuse, to listen while supple dancers click their castanets, or to glide through sinuous...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: Human Frailty | 6/14/1926 | See Source »

Though only a shy, mouselike toe peeps now and again from beneath Lanice's decorously billowing hoopskirts, within, untrammeled by its stays, waits a supple birch-sliver body. Lanice's mother, a vivid little chestnut-blonde, ran from her professor-husband with a precocious invalid student, to Italy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FICTION,NON-FICTION: Genteel Lady | 6/14/1926 | See Source »

Jakko Mikkola, University cross-country coach, expressed complete satisfaction with the condition of his men, in a statement to the CRIMSON yesterday. When asked if he laid much credit to the Finnish Baths which have been tried out this year, he replied: "It is hard to pick any one point...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HARVARD FAVORED IN I.C. 4-A. MEET TODAY | 11/23/1925 | See Source »

Artist Sims paints what he sees with glittering fluency. A. Lys Baldry once declared that "few present-day painters equal him in acuteness of observation, fewer-still surpass him in mechanical skill. Although Mr. Sims' work somewhat reflects the rhetorical stiffness of Mr. Baldry's sentence, that is...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Arts: Sims | 10/26/1925 | See Source »

A thin, supple little man like William M. Johnston.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Point With Pride: Aug. 10, 1925 | 8/10/1925 | See Source »

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