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Word: otherworld (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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Rome Haul is well peopled, but it is rather the story of a canal, and the history of a vivid phase in the development of U.S. civilization. Burdened with no plot or proof, it is engrossing for its otherworld, yet essentially new-world, atmosphere...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Phase | 3/25/1929 | See Source »

...detached manner. She looks very young indeed, years younger than she probably is; but she is one of those women who, when she reaches forty, will still appear to be just under or just over thirty. She should have lived in the Renaissance. She has an air of otherworld remoteness and of the color of romance as well. Her writing was started only a few years ago; but the finely spun, exquisitely phrased verses, now collected in Nets to Catch the Wind and Black Armour were immediately recognized as authentic contributions to the lists of American poets. She then turned...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Magic Words and of Past Centuries | 11/17/1924 | See Source »

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