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Word: aliases (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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The whole indicts marriage on a charge of economical absurdity parading under an alias of natural necessity. For all its whirring the play grinds no ax in the presence of the audience. It succeeds because it stages the battle of Rent v. Romance as essential drama. It is the best...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hatrack, Revelry | 2/7/1927 | See Source »

This morning at 9:05 o'clock I shall arise from my eggs and coffee, and with shredded wheat all over my lapels and icicles hanging down my neck saunter slowly forth on my material peregrinations. Since I have not been able to find any lectures of interest today, I...

Author: By A. L. S., | Title: THE GRIME | 2/1/1927 | See Source »

Twins, notable since the oozy dawn of civilization, are Crime and Corruption. They frolic now from Shanghai to Paris, unashamed. Occasionally, they rear their heads up into the light and scare some, shock others. Sometimes they pop up in Washington, but their favorite modern playgrounds are in manufacturing cities where...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Industrialists v. Twins | 10/11/1926 | See Source »

1) The "Baron" had used the alias, "George Adorgan," when attempting to enter Yale University last fall and had passed several worthless checks upon sophisticated New Haven merchants.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Baron von Krupp | 9/6/1926 | See Source »

Keenie Wagner, alias Harvey Logan, alias "Texas Slim," confessed killer of deputy-sheriff Mclntosh at McClain, Miss.; of two police officers at Kingsburg, Tenn., wagged garrulously of the $3,000 reward on his capture as Sheriff Lillie put him in a county cell. Asked why he surrendered, "Texas Slim" said...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Aug. 30, 1926 | 8/30/1926 | See Source »

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