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Word: virginally (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...haze the sacred mountains Iztaccihuatl (White Woman) and Popocatepetl (Smoke Mountain) seemed brooding. Simple peons, kneeling in the lovely, verdant Bosque de Chapultepec, muttered prayers half pagan, half Roman Catholic to Iztaccihuatl who they fancy resembles the white, reclining form of a pagan goddess -now somewhat confused with the Virgin Mary...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MEXICO: On Grasshopper Hill | 6/20/1927 | See Source »

...Very Wise Virgin. "It's a wise virgin knows her own boiling point," declares 18-year-old Flapper-Siren Betty. Seeing her ensnare a best friend's fiance, one infers that Betty has known her own boiling point well and often. Her triumph is not for long, however. Along comes a Russian lady-of-the-world whose experience extends over and beyond the boiling point, who therefore lures away the bewildered fiance, leaving Betty to marry a bashful doctor of twoscore years and more. Ultimately the best friend recaptures the twice-pilfered fiance. Joan Bourdelle, as Betty...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Jun. 13, 1927 | 6/13/1927 | See Source »

Concerning lions, Mr. Johnson said: "We came upon what was literally a virgin valley swarming with lions. They had never heard a shot fired, and treated us with the utmost indifference. Food for them was so plentiful that they even disdained the dead zebras we put out as bait, merely walking up and sniffing at the food we had provided. . . . Day after day, for weeks at a time we filmed them, getting them in groups and families of ten or fourteen at a time. Altogether we photographed 147 lions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Expeditions: Jun. 6, 1927 | 6/6/1927 | See Source »

...never read a Tabloid, I never hope to read one, But TIME, repeating all their smut, Seems trying hard to be one. This, of course, is mostly in fun. It will bear some thought, nevertheless. Certainly your reference in a recent issue to an "alleged" virgin Queen is about as questionable taste and as vulgar as anything which the tabloids are reputed to have printed. Its cleverness, if it can be called "clever," does not excuse...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: May 2, 1927 | 5/2/1927 | See Source »

...Captive (artistic), Sex and The Virgin Man (rubbish...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Pawky Promises | 4/11/1927 | See Source »

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