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Word: tells (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Dance d. In the Troll King's Grotto Boston Square and Compass Club Chorus a. O. Italia, Italia," from "Luerezia b. Rolling Down to Rio German c. Moonlight and Roses Lemare Overture to "Oberon" Weber Prelude to Act III. "Traviata" Verdi Prelude to "Lohengrin" Wagner Overture to "William Tell" Rossini

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: At the Pops Tonight | 6/5/1928 | See Source »

...musician could enter with a flute. Officials of the American Embassy were reluctantly obliged, last week, to request the U. S. citizenesses presented not to talk afterwards for publication about any matter appertaining to the Court. Presentee Miss Clementine Miller of Columbus, Ind., solved the problem of what to tell the reporters, last week, by divulging to them the Embassy's request. Smart Londoners chuckled hugely, coined a jest about "The Nineteenth 'No Gushing' Amendment," and finally recalled the gush uttered recently to reporters by Mrs. Alfred J. Brosseau President of the D. A. R. after...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Third Court | 6/4/1928 | See Source »

...absolutely against liquor because I do not feel it helps the human body. I am glad to tell you that I am past 50 and feel as well now as I did at 18. That comes from not drinking, not carousing, and getting a good night's rest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Dempsey Rebuked | 6/4/1928 | See Source »

Maria Guadalupe Chaires, from Ciudad Victoria, who was captured and asked where the priest and certain other Roman Catholics were hiding, and who when she refused to tell, was torn to pieces by soldiers. The soldiers began by tearing off her fingers and continued their mutilations until the woman was dead...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Death in Mexico | 5/28/1928 | See Source »

Last week Paleontologist Walter Granger motored 100 miles to a telegraph post to tell civilization that Leader Andrews had been shot in the leg but that his wound was not serious. The gun was his own, accidentally discharged during an antelope hunt; the leg was his own, accidentally in the way. It is probable that Antelope-Hunter Andrews quoted Explorer Vilhjalmur Stefansson's famed remark, as he has done before: "Adventures are a mark of incompetence...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Gobi | 5/28/1928 | See Source »

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