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Word: wanglers (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...bandits and won steady promotion to the rank of Sartip with 3,000 Cossacks under his command. For a fateful coup d'état it was Sartip Riza who was sought out in 1921 by Persia's wily Saiyid ZiaudDin, a wealthy newspaper publisher and astute political wangler...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: Brothers in Islam | 7/2/1934 | See Source »

Born, To Frederick Ogden Nash, word-wangler (Hard Lines), and Frances Leonard Nash, onetime Baltimore Junior Leaguer; a daughter; in Manhattan. Weight: 7 Ib. 4 oz. Name: Linell Chenault...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Apr. 11, 1932 | 4/11/1932 | See Source »

...little Jeff from Greece who sought to uphold League prestige. Surveying the somewhat comic champions, spectators beheld: in this corner tall, 175-lb. Senor Don Orestes Ferrara whose regular job is Cuban Ambassador at Washington; in that corner foxy, 135-lb. Dr. Nicolas Politis, agile Athenian word-wangler...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE LEAGUE OF NATIONS: Mutt & Jeff; Queen Bee | 9/29/1930 | See Source »

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