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Word: adoration (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Mary Pickford- banking; Karl Dane-raising chickens; Chester Conklin-raising turkeys; Bessie Love-dairy farming; Lon Chaney-part-ownership in a plumbing company; Constance Talmadge-manufacturing cold cream; Lew Cody-automobile agency and part-ownership in a barber shop; Conrad Nagel and Jack Holt-stockyards at Fresno, Calif.; Renee Adorée-French restaurant...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Variations Jan. 21, 1929 | 1/21/1929 | See Source »

...Gods (Thomas Meighan, Renée Adorée). Tom Meighan, disappointed in a careering U. S. wife, takes to building a bridge in South America. In this task he is inspired by Renee Adoree as a reformed dancing girl. Develops a love affair with the bridge casually suggested in the background. Reenters Friend Wife and Tom agrees to go back to the U. S. Renee, seeing in this the ruin of her love, jumps to death from the bridge- which is regretted, because Tom was only going back to get a divorce, and everyone is sorry to see Renee...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: New Pictures: Oct. 4, 1926 | 10/4/1926 | See Source »

...preponderating influence played by the American Red Cross in the League of Red Cross Societies-an influence which the Geneva Red Cross apparently finds inimical to its own prestige. It is also reputed to be jealous of the superior business efficiency of the American Red Cross. M. Ador, President of the Geneva Red Cross Committee and a former President of Switzerland, vigorously denied before the Geneva conference that there had been any intention of hurting the feelings of America. He sent the following telegram to John Barton Payne in Washington, Chairman of the American Red Cross: " The International Committee...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RED CROSS: Jealousy? | 9/10/1923 | See Source »

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