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Word: unpleasanter (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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A gentleman, an Oxford scholar, a literature, he was one of the men who could not stay at home, and who preferred the path of a rolling stone to the respectability of an English common-room. However what he sought was not glamour but peace of spirit, and in truth...

Author: By Henry Carter., | Title: PAINTS REALISTICALLY SOUTH SEA ISLES | 11/16/1923 | See Source »

When Joan Converse, child of a rich, unpleasant mother who went through life simmering in a tepid steam of easy admiration, and an ineffective father whom Mrs. Converse had discarded from her egocentric cosmos like a rejected peachpit, first met Jeffrey, she fell in love with him ?instanter and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Centaur* | 11/12/1923 | See Source »

A Nashville woman is reported to have slain her seat-neighbor in a movietheatre for reading the sub-titles out loud. Enduring the unpleasant interruption as long as she was able, she must finally have given way to "that uncontrollable impulse" and have imposed summary justice upon the offender. And...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MOVIE MURDERS | 11/6/1923 | See Source »

Most particularly does it deal with the confidence that the Tsarina Alexandra Feodorovna shared with the author; with the noble work done by "my Empress"; with the blindness and kindness of the Tsar; the pathetic illness of the Tsarevitch; and with many other details, pleasant and unpleasant, connected with the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: Imperial Russia* | 11/5/1923 | See Source »

The history of the weapons of war is a constant struggle between offensive and defensive weapons. At present airplanes dominate defensive measures of all kinds. But Brig. Gen. Hugh Aloysius Drum, Commandant of the 2nd Coast Artillery District and Pershing's Chief of Staff, announces an unpleasant form of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AERONAUTICS: Wrecked by Air | 11/5/1923 | See Source »

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