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Word: aliases (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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At a tennis tournament on the French Riviera, a fresh-minded young English architect falls in love with his partner, a beautiful, pessimistic and wholly mysterious American girl under an alias, discovers only by accident, when she has vanished, that she is the daughter of an eccentric U. S. billionaire...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Desert Whopper | 8/1/1938 | See Source »

The Saint in New York (RKO Radio) is the first cinemogrification of an airy young crime-fiction character, Simon Templar, alias "The Saint." The Saint (Louis Hayward) invades Manhattan, flushes and exterminates a racketeer mob from punk to big shot, with invaluable fingerwork by a darkling moll (Kay Sutton).

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Also Showing | 6/6/1938 | See Source »

"The Mink" is notorious George Mink, alias Minkoff, who, according to the U. S. State Department, has a valid U. S. passport. He worked for Yellow Cab Co. in Philadelphia from 1928 until 1933. A Philadelphia cabby who had then known him said last week: "'The Mink' was...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MEXICO: Tke Mink | 5/2/1938 | See Source »

Last week Carleton Beals told the story of the first ten years of his journalistic career. Main exhibits in Glass Houses are not Latin American politics, but the little-known expatriate life of Mexico City. By comparison with the post-War Bohemianism of Mexico City he describes, Greenwich Village during...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Stone-Thrower | 4/25/1938 | See Source »

Second Charlie Ross kidnapping was chiefly significant as an interesting coincidence until its solution made it a major crime in its own right. This was when, at Santa Anita race track last January, Federal agents arrested a 27-year-oldex-lumber-jack named John Henry Seadlund, alias Peter Anders, whose...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Mercy Kidnapper | 3/28/1938 | See Source »

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