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Word: tells (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Tommy, all great men are modest. Tell papa that Ethel really did most of your arithmetic. There's the good modest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: Morgan Accepts | 1/28/1929 | See Source »

...father and mother came to court and testified that they had had him pow-wowed 15 times before he was ten years old. Said Babulla Blymyer, his mother: "Yes, John was hexed. But who done it? You can't tell that. There's so many witches around...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Hex & Hoax | 1/21/1929 | See Source »

President Lowell of Harvard used to tell a story of the worried parents who could not tell their twin sons apart. They sent them to different schools in different parts of the country, brought one up on a ranch and one in the effete East, and still they could not tell them apart. Finally they sent one son to Harvard and the other to Yale. After four years the boys returned home, one what was known in New Haven as a typical Harvard gentleman, the other what used to be known in Cambridge as a typical Yale roughneck...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE PRESS | 1/15/1929 | See Source »

...during the rehearsals of Clarence, nine years ago. Alfred Lunt went to college in Waukesha, Wis. His wife's name is Lynn Lily Louise Lunt. The Street Wolf is a young agent provocateur whose looks lure not-unwilling chippies to a Greenwich Village brothel. It goes on to tell about bordellos, approaches incestuous situations until one sighs for the pure, clear air of Rabelais. Worst of all, it is banally written...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Jan. 14, 1929 | 1/14/1929 | See Source »

...after him except photographers who, quicker than Riegels' teammates, saw their chance not to prevent but to immortalize a tragic event (see cut). At last. Lorn started after Riegels but he did not catch the lumbering centre until they reached the four-yard line. He tried to tell Riegels what had happened but though he shouted the words into his ear, Riegels could not hear him in the roar of the crowd. Lorn grabbed his shoulder and pointed back up the field. On the two-yard line, two Georgia Tech tacklers knocked Riegels across his own goal-line...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Riegels' Run | 1/14/1929 | See Source »

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