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Word: trysts (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Once, he said, they went back to a rendezvous to get some pillows left there on a previous tryst. "When I returned to the car she had stripped off her clothing ... it was a beautiful moonlit night...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TEXAS: Classroom Casanova | 12/25/1939 | See Source »

Chapter 4: Swiss Tryst. Hanging around in Switzerland, meanwhile, waiting to greet the Tool of the Plot, was a 42-year-old man, fatter now than he was in the days when he was one of Adolf Hitler's stanchest standbys, a man so severely wounded in 1914-18 that he must still lead an ascetic life-Dr. Otto Strasser, head of the Black Front, sworn to demolish Hitler. He had obviously planned the bombing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: Himmler's Thriller | 12/4/1939 | See Source »

...association grows stronger. When Martin, appearing with milk on his mouth, solemnly reminds her that it is a sign someone will kiss him before morning, Phyllis volunteers. "Sometime later," begs Martin, "when you tuck me in bed.'' Those who know their Morley will recall that this tryst is forestalled by the fatal accident to Phyllis' children and by the importunities of Joyce, who has not grown up either and who persuades Martin to go away before something dreadful happens. James Bell, who sent shivers down audiences' spines when he performed his ghastly march to the electric...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: New Play in Manhattan: Nov. 13, 1933 | 11/13/1933 | See Source »

...University head as to what the deans should do there seems to be but one conclusion, there was no such guidance." The editorial explains: "In the Leonard-Goodnight war, brought about by Dean Goodnight's action [dean of men] in dismissing a couple caught in a love tryst, it was painfully apparent that President Frank had not made up his mind what the standards of life at a university should be. In such a situation it was. of course, impossible for him to guide his deans. As Miss Nardin so tartly puts it, quoting Theodore Roosevelt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Aug. 17, 1931 | 8/17/1931 | See Source »

...Tauber, 21, hosiery salesgirl, robbed the shop of $30. In binding her to a chair he tore her stocking. Soon after she received a dozen roses, six handkerchiefs, an amorous telegram signed ISLE OF VIEW and a pair of silk stockings. Then Allen Orman telephoned her, asked for a tryst. Frances Tauber agreed, took with her two detectives, sent amorous Allen Orman to jail...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Commandant | 11/17/1930 | See Source »

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