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Word: guess (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...course not. Why should they tear it down? Well, the inside. Didya see the red all over the snow? Thought it was a murder for a while. But Al says it's methyl orange. Butter-coloring. Guess that's what they use here...

Author: By R. W. P., | Title: THE CRIME | 3/12/1929 | See Source »

...quarter then. Sure she still works there. Sa-ay, she's smooth! But a big boy in a Cadillac calls for her every night. No, but Al tried. He drove up in front with his Chevy one time and blew the horn until the manager got a cop. Guess he was afraid of another riot. We students just don't have any riots. Didye get that one? It's a good pun. Well, even Kitty says puns are O. K. and he's a pundit. All right. I'll shut...

Author: By R. W. P., | Title: THE CRIME | 3/12/1929 | See Source »

...hether the romantic youth's letters are written by Mr. Walpole, and those of the gently cynical forty-year-old by Mr. Priestley, is not vouchsafed; but the guess is no great hazard. The combination is pleasant narrative, happy and inconsequential...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: A Lover Needs a Confidant | 3/11/1929 | See Source »

From its name one might guess that the Church Temperance Society of the Protestant Episcopal Church is an official Episcopal organization and a supporter of Prohibition. It is neither...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Wet For Temperance | 3/4/1929 | See Source »

Signor Donnarumma looked reproaches at Signora Donnarumma. The young wife could guess her husband's thoughts, for she knew that he had boasted in the village, "I shall have a son!" He had even bet on it. Now he would be laughed at, and perhaps he would hate her for making the villagers laugh...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Miraculous Bambino? | 2/25/1929 | See Source »

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