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Word: unpleasanter (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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A frail, twisted figure of a man hobbles into the House of Commons. Doorkeepers pity his crippled body, and portals open as the tapping thump of his two rubber-tipped canes approaches. But statesmen do not pity the Right Honorable Philip Snowden. They respect the power and swiftness of his...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Snowden V. Churchill | 4/25/1927 | See Source »

Realism, so-called, is indeed the password and fetish of modernity. Realism, in painting, realism in literature, realism in music--and always this realism is atended by unpleasant noise whatever be the medium of expression, and rarely is it real. Yet cacaphony in music may, for all that, have more...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE STUDENT VAGABOND | 4/13/1927 | See Source »

In spite of the fact that after an ocean voyage there might be those among the participants who would be but too glad to forsake the swaying decks of the good ship for the cobbled streets of Amsterdam the powers that be appear to consider even the slightly unpleasant associations...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HOUSEBOAT FROM THE STICKS | 4/9/1927 | See Source »

This it would appear, concludes what at best has been a very unpleasant incident.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE CRIME | 3/19/1927 | See Source »

This is the month when Stillman does a rushing business in spring colds and other light ailments, and when those who are too lazy even to make the journey up Mount Auburn Street are content to drift aimlessly and disintegrate under the warm March sun. Among all those having a...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SOLVITUR IACRIS HIEMS | 3/12/1927 | See Source »

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