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Word: vii (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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Radio sets attuned to WJZ one night last week caught neither bedtime Fuchs (the Austrian who drew Edward VII's portrait for British postage stamps) had the air. Sardonic, whimsical, he said...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Fuchs Fest | 2/21/1927 | See Source »

...Famed haunt of King Edward VII and his grandson, Edward of Wales...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Villa | 2/7/1927 | See Source »

...child I was shy; as a girl I ran hurdle races over the White House furniture; today I do what I please and enjoy it thoroughly. There are certain days that I like to recall: the day that I dined with my favorite monarch, the late King Edward VII . . . the day I was banished to New York from Washington by my father, Theodore Roosevelt, because I had bet on the horse races . . . the day I wore red riding breeches when presented to the Emperor of Korea (it was on this trip to the Orient that my romance with Nicholas Longworth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WOMEN: Birthday Party | 2/7/1927 | See Source »

...Physics 2a Emerson A Physiology 1 Sever 32 Romance Philology 3 Allen to Day Sever 13 Dow to Millican Sever 14 Moffatt to Stout Sever 19 Terrill to Wright Sever 20 Social Ethics 1a Emerson J Zoology 12 Zool. Lab. 46 Monday 9.15 O'clock MONDAY, JANUARY 24 (VII) Anthropology 12 Sever 5 Botany 2 Sever 5 Chemistry 4 Harvard 6 Economics 3 New Lect. Hall Economics 11 Harvard 5 English B Sever 11 English 50a Memorial Hall French 4 (sect. 2) Harvard 6 French 14 Sever 17 French 16 Sever 24 Geology 11 Rotch Bldg. German F Sever...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MIDYEAR EXAMINATIONS | 1/22/1927 | See Source »

...between the Laundress-Empress and Mrs. Rosa Lewis.* The Seventh Edward, though jovial, was no such humorist as Peter the Great. He merely liked his tidbits well prepared. When Lady Randolph Churchill, mother of the present Chancellor of the Exchequer, presented her cook, Mrs. Rosa Lewis,± to Edward VII (the Prince of Wales) and told him she was a good cook he never doubted it. "Damme," said Edward, "She takes more pains with a cabbage than with a chicken. . . . She gives me nothing sloppy, nothing colored up to dribble on a man's shirt-front...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Queen of Cooks' | 1/17/1927 | See Source »

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