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Word: cr (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...over demitasses in one or two of the five Art Moderne bar rooms, dined in one another's suites, paced the broad sun deck, and appeared to share a taste for those thin little pancakes blazed with spirits in a chafing dish, which are so favorably known as crêpes Suzettes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Homeward Bound | 8/27/1928 | See Source »

Georgia's Republican politicians rebutted these tales, and many another like them, with instances where candidates for office had offered to buy their way in. One G. F. Flanders, G. O. Patronage man cr Georgia's Twelfth District, declared he could sell every postmastership, if he wanted to, which he didn't. "I am not a grafter," he said...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CORRUPTION: The Sold South | 7/23/1928 | See Source »

SERVICE RECORD BY AN ARTILLERYMAN -L. V. Jacks-Scribners ($2). From a position as impersonal as an historian's account of the battle of Crécy, Author Jacks describes his War experiences. "Major Thompson dismounted and walked back and forth among the cannon. ... He replied that the shot was not made that would kill him. ..." Scenes of hideousness are frequent, gallantry omnipresent. A cool sense of the pictorial dominates a style metaphorically fine (if you think airplanes "steam by"). Non-belligerents will enjoy an atmosphere of accuracy (if you think English soldiers wear "mufti"). The suggestion of continual...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Artilleryman | 4/30/1928 | See Source »

Queen Elizabeth, gowned in salmon pink crêpe de chine, said smilingly: "You know, my son is tall. Well, the princess reaches his eyes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BELGIUM: Royal Engagement | 10/4/1926 | See Source »

...first dance, which will follow the Geneva game on Saturday, will be open to all members of the University contrary to the general practice, which will be hereafter to exclude all save members of the Union. For the first dance, Jacques Renard and his Lido Ven cr or orchestra will supply the music. Other well known orchestras will be engaged for the rest of the tea-dances...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: UNION TO HOLD DANCES AFTER FOOTBALL GAMES | 9/29/1926 | See Source »

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