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Word: tellings (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...fist at the bench and screamed: "That damned court-." Mark Thompson, Fall attorney, went white and limp, slumped to the floor, lay there unconscious for ten minutes before physicians could revive him. Bending over him was Frank Hogan, chief defense counsel, ashy white with disappointment. Cried Lawyer Hogan: "Tell that damned jury to come back here and smile at this, too." The wife of one of the jurors had followed the case as a Fall sympathizer. After the verdict she chased violently after her husband to a public park where he was being photographed. "You miserable rat!" she screamed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CORRUPTION: First Felon | 11/4/1929 | See Source »

...CRIMSON will emerge from the maze of charge and counter-charge with more than an inkling as to what it's all about. In the first place only the most elect of the agricultural cognoscenti know where the Botanic Garden is and few but concentrators in horticulture can tell within a time limit of five minutes the difference between the Botanic Garden and the Gray Herbarium. But an understanding of these points is but elementary to an understanding of the present controversy...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: WAR OF THE ROSES | 11/1/1929 | See Source »

...specialist in oral surgery and therefore frequently needed by King Alfonso XIII's family. His precious observations of the King he shared with his U. S. confreres. King Alfonso, he recounted, "takes life as it comes and hence he enjoys it to the utmost. . . . I am delighted to tell you that my Sovereign has never been a man of regular habits. He is not so stupid. He has never been a slave to regular diet, regular sleep, regular exercise, or regular anything else. Consequently, at the age of 43, Alfonso is in beautiful health and he has never...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Surgeons Meet | 10/28/1929 | See Source »

...Alumnus Rockefeller "runs a gas station somewhere down near New York" and assured the gathered company that "John would be pleased to meet any member of the alumni who needs a million dollars. . . . All you have to do is just go up and slap him on the back and tell him just what you want." In an expansive mood, Alumnus Rockefeller accepted the position of counsel for the defense of a fellow alumnus nine college years his senior-Dr. Clarence Augustus Barbour, who lately resigned as President of Colgate-Rochester Divinity School. Dr. Barbour, who was present, was shortly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Brown Men | 10/28/1929 | See Source »

Before the commencement of the exhibition, the Dramatic Club is arranging for a special speaker, who will outline the plan, and tell something of the way is which it is being done...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: DRAMATIC CLUB SPONSORS UNION FILM SHOWINGS | 10/28/1929 | See Source »

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