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Word: adamses (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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THE EXQUISITE PERDITA-E. Barrington-Dodd, Mead ($2.50). Who will, may damn her, the unchaste nymph, Perdita Robinson. But there are extenuations. Her husband lavished their little on drink and mistresses. She was only 19 and three years wed unhappily. When brilliant Dick Sheridan heard her as "Juliet" and persuaded...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FICTION: Heralds | 8/9/1926 | See Source »

The disintegrated Washington club, American League champions for the last two years, has been barely able to clamber out of the second half of the league. The team is surfeited with old men, retaining by far the oldest aggregation in either league, their average ages being 32. The Chicago Americans...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Resume | 7/19/1926 | See Source »

These are the plays which, in the light of metropolitan criticism, seem most important. SERIOUS THE GREAT GOD BROWN-Confused but compelling history of a man who bought another's personality for gold. LULU BELLE-Heady adventures among the Negro night clubs in Manhattan. Principally Lenore Ulric. CRAIG'...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: Theatre: Jul. 12, 1926 | 7/12/1926 | See Source »

Roscoe Platt Conkling-for three weeks every scandal-nosing news cub has leered as he mouthed that name. Mr. Conkling is a roving gas engineer who plays the violin. Mrs. Sidney Erskine Brewster, petite and 26, did not guard the letters he wrote her with discretion. Mr. Brewster, 29, was...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Conkling | 7/12/1926 | See Source »

Married. Emily Josephine Smith, 24, daughter of Governor Alfred E. Smith of New York, to Major John Adams Warner, 39, Superintendent of State Police, at Albany. Notables attending the wedding included: George Brennan (Democratic boss of Illinois), George W. Olvany (leader of Tammany), Owen D. Young, Mr. and Mrs. Walter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Jun. 14, 1926 | 6/14/1926 | See Source »

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