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Word: thinning (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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Bounding kangaroos and the not yet forgotten dulcet voice of aging Dame Nellie Melba are all that "Australia" calls up in many a mind. Humans under 30 seldom consciously associate "Peach Melba" or "Toast Melba" (very thin, very brown) with the great one time singer who is the only world-famed Australian...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: At Canberra | 4/18/1927 | See Source »

Seward Collins, Princeton ex-'22, a thin-lipped, urbane, high-strung, young man of wide reading and literary acquaintance, has been a colyumist for the Brooklyn Daily Eagle. He has tried his hand at novel writing, has peeked into psychoanalysis...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Bookman Sold | 4/18/1927 | See Source »

Drop two, dice 'em, make it thin...

Author: By R. T. S., | Title: THE CRIME | 4/16/1927 | See Source »

...gossip, tales of little doings of important and unimportant people, is always half the news. In the small towns on the boarding house porches of lesser Broadways, rocking-chairs squeak out a dissonant and complaining chorus, thin-lipped ladies swell like croaking frogs into the temporary importance of unofficial news-mongers. Over bored back fences, down dumbwaiter pits, gossiping voices shrill. In cities, the churning presses of newspapers join the rocking-chair chorus, give the daily pabulum of gossip, dignified in print, to stenographer and businessman. Shanghai may fall, Prohibition flounder; the names of "Peaches," Chaplin, Rhinelander still strike responsive...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Trivia | 4/11/1927 | See Source »

...Dreyfus case purported to be the trial of an army officer indicted for high treason; but a wave of anti-Semitism was then sweeping France, and the charge of treason served as but a thin screen behind which was fought another race and religious battle. Sacco and Vanzetti, seven years ago, were nominally tried for the murder of a paymaster and his guard; but a wave of reaction against radical notions of all kinds was at the time sweeping this country, and economic doctrines played an important part in the evidence submitted to a jury impanelled...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE DIGNITY OF THE COURTS | 4/11/1927 | See Source »

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