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Word: whizzes (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...heard a gun go off and a bullet whizz. I saw Johnny fall. He didn't cry; he just lay there still. I heard Helen cry out: 'Johnny, I'm shot...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HUSBANDRY: Town & Country | 9/2/1929 | See Source »

...Whizz! Half a dozen French bicycle police scooted up, with mustaches bristling, and surrounded a small, inoffensive U. S. roadster. With screeching breaks a large limousine drew up also, and out hopped several excited agents of the Surete General (Secret Service). Cried a Surete plain clothes man to the occupant of the roadster: "Are you M. Harold Horan, representative of M. Guillaume Randolph Hearst...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Whizz--the Police! | 10/22/1928 | See Source »

When the wires grew quiet, Count Dalla Torre had leisure and opportunity to confer with Monsignors, Cardinals and even the Most Blessed Father respecting the Grand Prix whizz-smash. Two days later the patient, timeless Papacy made its Most High Opinion known through Count Dalla Torre. Printed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Maddest Exaltation | 9/24/1928 | See Source »

...Whizz! Whirr! With humming tires and throbbing motor there sped down a deserted road near Epernay the great Marshal Pétain-who once held Verdun against Germany's Crown Prince...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Cocobo, Ibrahim & Petain | 9/17/1928 | See Source »

However, in the gloaming, two whizzing cars can approach very near a crossroad without becoming aware of each other. Fortunately the Marshal's chauffeur is a talented swerver. He broke the force of the whizz-smash by a cool, adroit skid-swerve. When the man at the wheel turned around with blanched face to explain, he received from Marshal Pétain a little nod and a typical, paternal phrase of encouragement, "Bien fait, mon fils." ("Well done...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Cocobo, Ibrahim & Petain | 9/17/1928 | See Source »

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