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Word: tweed (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...hour. . . . The scientists, in short, got a long way from the short man rapidly walking down a broad street. They had noted details. The short man was perhaps 5 ft. 4 in. tall; he weighed 145 Ibs.; wore unpolished black leather half-shoes, black lisle socks, a grey tweed suit, a taupe-colored felt hat pulled down over his bespectacled hazel eyes. His black, curly hair was awry and needed cutting. His hands were in his pockets, with one nickel, one dime and one quarter. Other people of other descriptions were milling and bumping around him with other gaits. Traffic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Einstein's Field Theory | 2/18/1929 | See Source »

...Tweed; the Boss in Politics" (continued) Mr. Pigors, Emerson...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Student Vagabond | 2/15/1929 | See Source »

...Tweed; the Boss in Politics" (continued) Mr. Pigors, Emerson...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Student Vagabond | 2/14/1929 | See Source »

Married. John William Mackay, employe and son of Telegraph Tycoon Clarence Hungerford Mackay; and Josephine Gwendolyn Rose, Manhattan socialite, great-granddaughter of William Marcy ("Boss") Tweed, famed Tammany ringmaster; in Westbury...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Feb. 11, 1929 | 2/11/1929 | See Source »

...Tweed: the Boss in Politics", Mr. Pigors, Emerson...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Student Vagabond | 2/11/1929 | See Source »

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