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Word: tellier (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1929-1929
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President John Martin Thomas roguishly assured his Rutgers undergraduates gathered at a "pep meeting" on the football field that he would not carry his gold-headed cane to church until they had beaten Lafayette. Backs Tellier and Wilcox kept the cane in Prexy's closet. Lafayette 20, Rutgers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Football: Nov. 18, 1929 | 11/18/1929 | See Source »

...cargo boats (1919-22). Returning to Paris he found a berth with exquisite yet potent Henri Letellier. Of this Croesus among Paris publishers it is said on intimate authority that he owns 1,260 suits of clothes, and everyone knows that he has eleven motor cars, favoring Voisins. Le, tellier has been Mayor of Deauville (which he launched as a smart resort with Eugene Cornuche), owns his own marque of champagne, keeps a smart racing stable, and draws most of his immense income from real estate scattered throughout Europe and South America, from oil fields in Mexico, and from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Vanderbilts, Letellier & Gwynne | 1/7/1929 | See Source »

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