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Word: diversion (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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Nor does it show a careful reading of Mr. Lewis' Dunciad Ecclesiastics wherein divers divines do receive a sound verbal lashing as they do well deserve. For one could even cherish a Vagabond after reading of the vices and dirty dealing of the apostolic horde. Also it might be mentioned...

Author: By D. G. G., | Title: THE CRIME | 3/21/1927 | See Source »

The conscientious Vagabond has a many-sided nature and is an earnest devotee of art, literature or science indiscriminately. It is rare, however, that simultaneous opportunities are offered to satisfy such divers appetites. It is, therefore, with keen anticipation that the Vagabond plans pilgrimages to Widener, Fogg and Robinson to...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE STUDENT VAGABOND | 3/17/1927 | See Source »

Cambridge is not the only victim of student riots. The Sailing University, aboard the S. S. Ryndam, evidently also has its off-shore moments and they are not according to the authorities of divers foreign ports, of the mildest nature. In Tokyo the studious young wanderers disported themselves in a...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: DIRTY WORK AFLOAT | 11/8/1926 | See Source »

Young April (Joseph Schildkraut, Bessie Love). At the Hippodrome, onetime magic home of elephants, clowns, high-divers; recent realm of vaudeville; now frankly succumbed to the cinema as well, is No. 4,000 in the endless series of mythical kingdom romances. This one recounts the adventures of the Crown Prince...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: New Pictures: Sep. 13, 1926 | 9/13/1926 | See Source »

Late on the night of Monday, June 21, there remained about an hour's work for the divers to make the S-51 entirely ready for raising. All eight pontoons had been floated off the bottom but with only sufficient buoyancy to insure that they would not settle down...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Jul. 19, 1926 | 7/19/1926 | See Source »

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