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Word: youngs (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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Correspondents (catching a glimpse of Owen D. Young in the chairman's place): "They've elected Young!" (Correspondents rush out to file cablegrams. On their return a handout is issued, stating that all the delegates made brief perfunctory speeches, and announcing that no minutes of the proceedings were kept. Curtain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: Grand Spectacle | 2/18/1929 | See Source »

...indignant young man and a genial, flabby-handed oldster conferred, last week in the Prime Minister's Room of the House of Commons, without witnesses, without prior notice to the press. Edward of Wales told Stanley Baldwin about his recent tour of the North English coal fields, described scenes of bitter misery and awful squalor which had caused H. R. H. to exclaim (TIME, Feb. 11): "This is ghastly! I never thought things were so bad!" "A ghastly mess. . . ." Presumably the heir to the throne used equally strong language, last week, to the Prime Minister. What would Stanley Baldwin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Wales Gagged? | 2/18/1929 | See Source »

Collars': "Since his young days the King has remained faithful to the tie which slips through a gold ring. He has adopted the double collar; one cut on orthodox lines, neither opening so widely as that of the Prince of Wales nor with such deep points as that of the Duke of York...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Royal Fashion v. Royal Style | 2/18/1929 | See Source »

...vows twelve months at a time to Jesus the Christ. She had intended to become permanently the Savior's bride, but in the nick of time King Alfonso XII of Spain arrived to seek a spouse at the court of her father's cousin, Emperor Franz Josef, and the young Prinzessin's destiny was altered...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SPAIN: Queen into Pantheon | 2/18/1929 | See Source »

...hundred thousand persons at the lowest count turned out last week, in Mexico City, to follow the hearse of a young man whose sole distinction is that he assassinated Mexico's President-Elect General Alvaro Obregon (TIME, July...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MEXICO: In Luck! | 2/18/1929 | See Source »

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