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Word: bluest (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Bluest of St. Louis blues are those which in recent years have beset that city's theatre managers. Long have...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: In St. Louis | 5/13/1929 | See Source »

...Mather rattles his shroud in horror at the mere suspicion that censorship is un-American. The Ziegfeld Follies may be a "National Institution', but one must never forget that censorship was in the field first. Censorship came over in the Mayflower, and can claim blue blood equal to the bluest of the blue...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MAMMON DEFENDED 99.44 PER CENT PURE | 1/28/1925 | See Source »

...automobiles and railroad equipment. Still other industries, like the oils, have been sick and are now getting through their convalescent period. The whole question is whether the present recession in business will broaden and lengthen into a depression, or prove only a slight halt in operations. When things get bluest will be the time to plan on renewed activity. But that time has not yet arrived...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Current Situation: May 19, 1924 | 5/19/1924 | See Source »

...comprehend the advantages of prescribed hygiene over elective biology--except in so far as he may have observed the results on graduates who have fallen into his hands. It is moreover true that the acquisition of wealth promotes a reactionary spirit; the reddest radical, becomes wealthy, turns into the bluest conservative. But modern universities have become great industries--largely devoted to turning out the men who will carry on industry in the future. The fitness of business men to direct such enterprises is fairly obvious. This does not mean that for the purposes of a liberal education, business control...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE GOOSE STEPS HIGH | 5/10/1924 | See Source »

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