Search Details

Word: thawed (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

Five days afterward came a sudden thaw. From ice into water turned many a stream-including the Serpentine, that storied streamlet of Hyde Park, London, in which swam Peter Pan. Thus, it became possible to hold last week, the famous 110-yard Serpentine Swimming Race which is sponsored each year by Sir James Matthew Barrie. Last week he stood at one end of the Serpentine under an old, sopping umbrella and awarded to the winner of the race, one H. J. Edwards, the handsome, annually donated Peter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: Worst in Decades | 1/9/1928 | See Source »

...addition, several popular numbers will be played as requests and a new arrangement of "Rose in the Bud" by G. A. Thaw '29, and R. M. Whittemore '29 will be repeated...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HARVARDIANS TO GIVE LAST SUNDAY CONCERT | 5/20/1927 | See Source »

...shooting, did not mention that Soviet Ambassador to Paris Rakovsky approached Foreign Minister Briand, last week, with a tentative offer to repay 55,000,000 francs ($10,615,000) per annum on the Tsarist debt to France. If this long frozen source of revenue has actually begun to thaw, Frenchmen may well rejoice; but it was rumored that the Soviet Government comes once again with a fair-seeming offer, but intends to hold out once again for further credits from French manufacturers which France is loath to grant...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Notable Excesses | 3/28/1927 | See Source »

...White. (Stanford White, murdered by H. K. Thaw, who resented liberties taken with Mrs. E. N. Thaw...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: An Evening This Week: Answers to No. 3 | 3/21/1927 | See Source »

...Harry Thaw's actual condition was suggested by the allegation that after friends broke in and rescued Miss Estardus he ran about shouting: "Where's my brush? Where's my brush?" Such words, if they were uttered, place Mr. Thaw outside the realm of useful discussion by a public not made up of specialists...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: False Hypocrites | 2/14/1927 | See Source »

Previous | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | Next