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Word: twigs (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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Instead, he: 1) Spent his first night away from the White House in a tent; 2) Got a twig-whack on the left cheek, just below the eye which made a mark; 3) Attended a Baptist Sunday School meeting at Sperryville; 4) Had his automobile pulled out of a Virginia mudhole by a state-maintained team of mules...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: The Hoover Week: May 27, 1929 | 5/27/1929 | See Source »

...Power Trust has taken to heart and made its own, the old Motto: As the twig is bent, so will the free inclined. We are right up against a situation where we have got to determine just what these great power interests are doing to us and what we have got to do about them...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Public Utilities Companies Are Charged With Move to Subsidize Business School | 4/23/1929 | See Source »

...German people, as many know, have gone off on a physical culture twig. This Ufa film shows them at it-dancing in the valleys, chinning on the mountain tops, swinging, stretching, running, generally intensifying and multiplying the daily dozen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: New Pictures: Aug. 8, 1927 | 8/8/1927 | See Source »

Curls of steam and greasy smells rose, one morning last week, around a locomotive which waited in London, ready to whisk a trainload of tourists off to Southampton and the Cunarder Aquitania. Pensive, the engineer spat from his cab upon the platform. "D'ye twig wha's aboord?" he said to the fireman, "Mon, I wud sooner drive Mac any day than the King himsel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Ramsay Sails | 4/18/1927 | See Source »

...Persia, who affected still the long spiky bristle of the mandarin, was worried. When he heard how the naked chin of Peter gleamed blue and shameless in his new palace, Petersburg, upon the Neva, he sent him a fine rug as one who would say: In mystery the twig is bent, and a patch of hair divides one nation from another. Let peace be between us, my brother, although your shears are impudent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Rug | 10/11/1926 | See Source »

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