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Word: tonic (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...excellent tonic too, for any inferiority complex which the April hours may have given...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CRIMSON PLAYGOER | 3/23/1927 | See Source »

...Christmas spirit. New thrills this year, unique displays, incredible suffering and destitution, old-fashioned slums, widows and orphans, homeless babies and centenarians, everything. This way for the 'thrill of giving,' the 'pleasure and satisfaction' of charity (New York Times editorial). Good for jaded nerves and appetites; the best tonic for your conscience; a help in digesting your Christmas dinner...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Xmas, Inc. | 1/3/1927 | See Source »

...common goal of joy in the sport, or sport for sport's sake. And the introduction of this sport is, after all, the fundamental reason for and justification of intramural sports. There are many negative remedies for commercialism in intercollegiate athletics, but probably none by them possess the tonic qualities of a successfully applied "athletics for all" policy...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: INTRAMURAL SPORTS | 12/14/1926 | See Source »

Representative La Guardia, New York's popular Italian member, spent the week trying to embarrass Mr. Andrews by "making beer with a kick" out of bottled goods purchased at the corner drug stores. The ingredients used were near-beer and a 3.76% malt tonic which Mr. Andrews had passed on last month as a legal manufacture (TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Christmas Present | 7/5/1926 | See Source »

Married. Fred W. Fitch, 56, rich hair-tonic tycoon, onetime barber, to Gertrude Westberg, 38, his foster daughter and onetime chief hair-tonic bottler, at Des Moines...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Jun. 14, 1926 | 6/14/1926 | See Source »

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