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Word: worded (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...international headquarters Aunt Evangeline inquired for Niece Catherine. Niece Catherine sent word she would be down presently, and then departed privily by a side door for home. Eventually the two did meet, but what passed between them was kept a family secret...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Salvation Rift | 1/14/1929 | See Source »

...admitted, donned the rude brown habit with hempen girdle, the sandals on his bare feet. That was two years ago. Word of his entering the monastery spread through the land...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Prussian Penance | 1/14/1929 | See Source »

...Brisbane, and the second at Sydney. The third, if they won, would clinch the series for them. Since a test usually lasts for a week or more, the inhabitants of Melbourne had plenty of time to watch. On the first days of play, the crowd was small. Then word got around that the Australians were making a fine stand and the grandstands began to fill...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Cricket | 1/14/1929 | See Source »

...took command of the Herald at the end of the Civil War, spending more time in Europe than in the U. S., continuing his flamboyant exploits. But his word was law, whether shouted across his New York desk or cabled from Paris. He had two supreme maxims...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Father & Son | 1/14/1929 | See Source »

Again, when the New York office was expecting an important message, Bennett cabled: "Send two mocking-birds by special messenger." They were sent and the next word from Bennett was: "Send mocking-bird food." Bennett had been boasting to a Parisian lady about the melodious American mocking-bird...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Father & Son | 1/14/1929 | See Source »

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