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Word: yes (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...intermission, when he decided it was time to send in his card to the bright star of the protestless of "stage door Johnnies" was the medium and promised to have an answer after the show. He did have one Fair "Helen of Troy, New York" had written daintily, "Yes...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Inquiring Reporter Finds Rough Weather in Miss Ford's Dressing Room--Hauls in Canvas and Scuds Before the Gale | 12/6/1927 | See Source »

...only claim to renown, it would seem is that he was henchman for the notorious "Tom" Johnson and was a "Yes Man" in the weakest Cabinet that ever sat in Washington...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Dec. 5, 1927 | 12/5/1927 | See Source »

Tears started from M. Bratiano's eyes as he made a supreme effort and managed to gasp: "Yes, Your Majesty. How good and gracious it is of you to come here at such an hour...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUMANIA: Vintila After Jon | 12/5/1927 | See Source »

...seems to advocate a kind of half-hearted compromise: And in this, the present reviewer believes him to be mistaken, There are plenty of undergraduates who are keenly interested in "aesthetic outpourings", or stuff after the manner of the Dial. The undergraduate is not afraid of literature. Bad literature, yes: but that is another matter. The trouble with most college literary magazines is that they do try to compromise--that they are timid, and afraid (this fear itself being philistine) to go all out for literary distinction. Playing safe, they achieve a kind of dreary neutrality...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: REVIEWER'S DISFAVOR SETTLES ON ADVOCATE | 11/29/1927 | See Source »

...Yes," came the answer, "but we want a responsible Minister...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BRITISH EMPIRE: Parliament's Week: Nov. 28, 1927 | 11/28/1927 | See Source »

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