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Word: wifely (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Haiti was last week quiescent. Political organizations asked President Hoover to supply U. S. supervision for the April elections, as was done last year in Nicaragua. Arrests were only for violation of the 9 p. m. curfew under martial law. President Borno's daughter Madeleine was ceremoniously taken to wife by Daniel Brun, architect. Additional Marines dispatched aboard the U. S. S. Wright were diverted to Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, while the U. S. House of Representatives moved to give President Hoover the investigating commission he had asked for (TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: Montezuma, Tripoli & Beyond | 12/23/1929 | See Source »

Senora Sarafina Gomez, comely wife of Mayor Miguel Mariana Gomez of Havana, visiting Manhattan with her husband, said of her town: "We have more good American tourists than bad ones...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Dec. 23, 1929 | 12/23/1929 | See Source »

Byron Satterlee Hurlbut '87, Professor of English, died last night at 11.30 o'clock at the Cambridge Hospital after a brief illness. No announcement as to funeral services has been made. He is survived by his wife...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PROFESSOR HURLBUT PASSES AWAY AFTER VERY BRIEF ILLNESS | 12/20/1929 | See Source »

...young lawyer in Budapest, with a wife and infant child, has just recovered from an illness and is looking for a job when the World War breaks out. He unheroically volunteers (he has flat feet). To his great surprise he is accepted, goes to training camp, then to the front, is captured by the Russians, and, in company with thousands of German and Austrian prisoners, is sent from one prison camp to another, finally landing in Siberia. There, for almost six years, he stays...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Microcosm of War | 12/16/1929 | See Source »

...nose and upper teeth. Born in Washington, D. C. in 1889, he grew up to be a semiprofessional baseballer in St. Paul, Minn. Then he found his baritone voice was better than his throwing arm. He was a church soloist in Bronxville, N. Y. where he romantically won his wife with the aid of an elopers' ladder. Called one day for jury duty in Manhattan, he found himself near No. 195 Broadway, then headquarters of WEAF. He walked in, took a voice test, got a job. Fame came quickly. His reporting of the long-drawn 1924, Democratic National Convention...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Talking Reporter | 12/16/1929 | See Source »

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