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Word: never (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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WHOOPEE STOP TIME HOW MANY GIRLS DO YOU KNOW WHO COULD AFFORD A LIFE OF LUXURIOUS EASE WHO CHOOSE INSTEAD THE EXACTING LIFE OF A PROFESSIONAL PIANIST STOP THE SHOTWELL SAGA WHICH YOU QUOTE HAS ONLY BEGUN FOR PIANIST SHOTWELL IS AMERICAN BORN OF MAYFLOWER STOCK AND MONEY HAS NEVER BEEN HER STANDARD OF MEASUREMENT EITHER IN HER LIVING HER FRIENDS OR HER MUSIC...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Dec. 2, 1929 | 12/2/1929 | See Source »

...about the word lagniappe (lanny-yap). I wish to men-.tion that our "oldtime" Negroes (and many whites also) used a word which meant exactly the same thing; the word was Koontra, and is supposed to be of African origin. No matter how small a purchase they made, they never failed to ask for Koontra...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Dec. 2, 1929 | 12/2/1929 | See Source »

...ashamed I ever went there. Years ago I swore I'd never go to that damned town again. . . . I play my game in the open...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Great Lobby Hunt, Cont. | 12/2/1929 | See Source »

Issue of Nov.111, p. 60. "If the hunted thing is in the middle of the picture it is killed.'5 From your description of the camera gun, the quoted statement may account for numerous alibis and limited bags. In wing shooting, the gun is never aimed directly at the object to be struck, except on the rare occasion of a straightaway bird, neither rising nor falling. For cross flight at 40 yards distance, it would be necessary to back that goose eight feet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Dec. 2, 1929 | 12/2/1929 | See Source »

...Dawson of Penn," a frock-coated name, a faintly snobbish name, precisely the right name for the King's Physician in Ordinary ?so thought many a U. S. citizen last year when George V lay near Death and the sun never set on fresh bulletins signed "Dawson of Penn" (TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Dawson of Bloomsbury | 12/2/1929 | See Source »

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