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Word: true (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...advisory delegation attending the five-power naval parley in London in January. He would serve as personal aide to his great & good friend Statesman Henry Lewis Stimson. Born at Aberdeen, N. C., 46 years ago and brought up in the manner of a Southern gentleman, Advisor Page is, true to family tradition, a Democrat, though he voted for Herbert Hoover last year. A vice president of American Telephone & Telegraph Co. in charge of public relations, he plays a vigorous game of golf, sneaks off from his Long Island estate to New Hampshire or elsewhere to fish at the slightest provocation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CABINET: Johnson, Page, Phillips | 11/25/1929 | See Source »

...Guardsmen, weary of the eight-week fray, wanted to go home and lick their wounds in private. Democrats also craved a respite; the charge, false or true, that their action on the tariff was largely responsible for the stockmarket crash and business uncertainty made them skittish about pressing their victories...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE TARIFF: The Young Turks | 11/25/1929 | See Source »

...true monument? . . . A picture comes to my mind of 1915?a crowded theatre in London, the sudden onslaught of bombs dropping from high up in the air, the rush of startled humanity to the open street, defenceless mortals running hither and thither, a woman screaming as she clutched to her breast the bloody body of a year-old baby and watched her baby's head pitch to the gutter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HEROES: Maniac Memorial | 11/25/1929 | See Source »

...true monument to War means the recognition of Stupidity?Horror?Stench ?Filth?Rape?Ignorance?Sin?Lunacy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HEROES: Maniac Memorial | 11/25/1929 | See Source »

...hints that a hot time in the old town may still be had, and at government expense. But chiefly he reassures us that the Russian has not lost his old talent of being able to laugh at himself. The Embezzlers, neither Communist nor anti-Communist propaganda, is funny, and true to more than Russian life...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Soviet Laughter | 11/25/1929 | See Source »

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