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Word: unbornable (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Some years ago Mr. Mikimoto bought a prominent hill and dreamed of erecting on it a hollow tower which he proposed to fill with pearls as a farmer fills an elevator with grain. "My reason," Mr. Mikimoto used to say, "is to give pleasure to women of generations yet unborn who will wear pearls from my tower-Mikimoto pearls...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Three-minute Pearls | 10/31/1932 | See Source »

...pickaninnies), royal babies (Baroness de Bardossy of Hungary), socialite babies (Peter & Palmer Dixon of Southampton, L. I.), champion babies (Gillingham F. Landis, onetime winner of the Ocean City, N. J. baby parade). There was no mention of deceased baby-of-the- year Charles Augustus Lindbergh Jr. or unborn baby-of-next-year Smith Holman Reynolds. Promised for the next issue-was the "inside story" of "the most famous baby in the world. She was famous even before she was born. Her existence disturbed a number of highly important people, and there were legal battles about her. Now she is going...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Cuddle Appeal | 10/3/1932 | See Source »

...madman surely it was her right to do so. As his death day dawned Dr. Gorgulov kissed the Orthodox priest who administered last rites and said with a wry smile, "I am not afraid. I am neither Royalist nor Communist. I hope that my son, who is yet unborn, will not become a Communist. Tell my wife I love her dearly and ask pardon for all I have done. I commend myself to the Russian peasantry! Ah Russia, Russia my fatherland...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: To the Russian Peasantry . . . | 9/26/1932 | See Source »

Author Bennett's life was a literal translation of his literary creed: "An artist works only to satisfy himself, and for the applause and appreciation neither of his fellows alive nor his fellows yet unborn. I would not care a bilberry for posterity. I should be my own justest judge, from whom there was no appeal; and having satisfied him ... I should be content-as an artist. As a man, I should be disgusted if I could not earn plenty of money and the praise of the discriminating." To earn a Man's share of cash, Author Bennett...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Literary Whale | 5/30/1932 | See Source »

...considers Col. & Mrs. Lindbergh guilty of petty treason? No-one but Mr. Wagner. Who would consider him guilty of murder if. he refused to pay a ransom? Everyone but Mr. Wagner. The murder not only of Charles Augustus Jr. but possibly the murder of his wife and unborn child...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Letters, Apr. 4, 1932 | 4/4/1932 | See Source »

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