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Word: yes (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Pratt, still pretty, always alert, is the despair of facetious Mayor Walker, who calls her "Ruth" and "so charming" when she asks him pertinent questions. She considers him amusing, yes, but a feather-and-glue obstruction to the serious party reforms she thinks Manhattan needs. Her boys go to Groton and Harvard. Her husband's father founded Pratt (Fine & Applied Arts) Institute in Brooklyn after helping to found Standard Oil. Her husband was the Pratt who jotted the memorandum which revealed "Andy" Mellon (Secretary of the Treasury Andrew William Mellon) as one of those who were invited by Will...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Phelps-Pratt | 9/17/1928 | See Source »

This is the News. We're getting up a little story on that New York World cartoon, Mr. Goofus, and we want to know what you think about it. No, not that one. The one we reprinted the other day, with the two yeggs shooting at each other. Yes, that's the one. . . . You haven't thought about it? Well, we're very anxious to have a statement from you, Mr. Goofus...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: New York v. Chicago | 9/10/1928 | See Source »

...could be stoppered with cork. And, far more important, he had invented the bubbling wine known as champagne. For a long time, of course, people thought he had been helped by the Evil One. But every Frenchman knows now that champagne may be drunk by the most devout. Ah, yes, Dom Pérignon was a very great man indeed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Evil One | 9/3/1928 | See Source »

...often had tea with persons whose belongings he had previously appropriated. He was quite frequently spoken of as the best dressed man in Paris; indeed when they arrested him the police found 125 splendid suits of clothes hanging in his humble flat; and Auguste Moessner smoothing his hair, remarked, "Yes, my elegant appearance was my best protection...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Sep. 3, 1928 | 9/3/1928 | See Source »

Nellie: "Joe, dear, my answer is yes." In February, Joe Sleet sent Nellie Wallace a ticket and she came to El Paso. He saw then, for the first time, that Nellie Wallace was fat as butter; she appeared cheerful however and he did not regret his correspondence. They had a wedding...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Aug. 27, 1928 | 8/27/1928 | See Source »

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