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Word: two (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Mellie Dunham (Henry Ford's famed Maine fiddler), went into the woods near Norway, Me. with a rifle, killed a buck deer, dragged it home, butchered it for steaks & chops. Said she: "When a family in the country needs fresh meat, a rifle in the hand is worth two fiddles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Nov. 11, 1929 | 11/11/1929 | See Source »

Friends of Mrs. Woodrow Wilson were just as surprised as friends of Irene Bordoni, musicomedienne (Paris), to see Mrs. Wilson's name under Miss Bordoni's picture by mistake in the Philadelphia Public Ledger. Last week's news of the two ladies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Nov. 11, 1929 | 11/11/1929 | See Source »

...Cleveland Museum of Art is a little ivory panel (10 in. x 12 in.) carved with the story of the sufferings of Jesus. Because it is divided into two sections it is called a diptych. The Museum bought it last year from Manhattan Dealer Demotte and, delighted, published a brochure stating that this diptych was made in the 11th Century at Liege, said it was the most valuable diptych in the U. S., that it cost...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ART: Modigliani's Mode | 11/11/1929 | See Source »

...Hungarian Prime Minister Count Stephen Bethlen, was sentenced in Budapest to three days State detention for sabre-hacking a Count Almassy in a duel. For his part in the duel, which originated in a bar when a lady's name was lightly mentioned, Count Almassy will serve two days State detention?confinement under supervision with privilege of receiving guests, eating self-provided food...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Nov. 11, 1929 | 11/11/1929 | See Source »

...humid fastness of the Belgian Congo's deep Itura Forest. By few white men's eyes have these curious creatures ever been seen. Mr. & Mrs. Martin E. Johnson, famed intrepid jungleers, set off last week from Manhattan with eight motor cars, many tons of camp & photographic supplies, two batteries of sound-cinema equipment, two dozen automatic cameras, cinema cameras so that U. S. movie audiences may buzz with wonder at the sound and sight of the Congo's animal wonders...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Animals: Johnsons Off Again | 11/11/1929 | See Source »

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