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Word: toga (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Kentucky, the very man who opposed him in the bitterest of all 1938 primary fights, the fight which aroused national demand for a ban on politics in the WPA, thus resulted in the Hatch Act. Till next August's primary, Kentucky's Happy Man may wear the toga, if not the dignity, of a U. S. Senator...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: The Happy Man | 10/16/1939 | See Source »

...picks up more Harvard men at each stop (see how it works)." No sooner settled in the deep South at their headquarters, the Hotel Roosevelt, the Harvard gentlemen will have to face three busy days. At symposia, business meetings, and graduate school seminars, such topics as "Youth Dons the Toga of Citizenship," "The Student helps the Dean" and "Shifting Postulates in Modern Legal Development" will carefully be disposed...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: DESCENT INTO THE DELTA | 4/12/1939 | See Source »

...Federal officialdom is one of the major phenomena of the New Deal. It could not have been done by a character less elastic and resilient. He has not let his prodigious capacity for work stunt his private life. He likes par ties on Long Island, weekends at Sara toga, shirtsleeve poker with Jesse Jones & cronies. His little house in Georgetown, which he took to be near James Roosevelt, has been more of a sleeping place than a home to him since his second wife died last year, but he manages to be a pretty good father to his daughter Diane...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RELIEF: Men at Work | 7/18/1938 | See Source »

...Signorina Orsola Buvoli of Milan, penniless and proud of it. Rome's swellegant hotel will feed the churchgoers out of the Big Patoot's private cache of frog-skins. . . . Dream pigeon of the week is Silvia di Rosa. The date: Feb. 8. Was Rome caught with its toga down by the sudden announcement last week that her Mark Antony is the 25-year-old boss of the Patoot's family paper Popolo d'ltalia, none other than Vito Mussolini who was left behind when his father, Benito's only and beloved Brother Arnaldo went...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: On the Corso | 2/1/1937 | See Source »

...students were the "toga" to informal exercises such as morning prayers, and while studying or relaxing in the taverns of Harvard Square...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Togas Worn in 1836 | 9/1/1936 | See Source »

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