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Word: asking (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...recently said: "I used to ask Michael when he was a young fellow, 'Why do you read all night? Don't you know I have...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Days of Wrath | 11/26/1928 | See Source »

...nonsense titled "Bubbles" beguiles the audience. The girls, however, slip up in their routine dances now and then, one of them actually took a heavy fall, and the song and patter men act somewhat nonplussed at being on the big time: Fannie Brice, America's leading comedienne (don't ask which direction) dashes on for 15 minutes and completes the bill in a manner inconvenient to describe...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Crimson Playgoer | 11/24/1928 | See Source »

Smugly confident, General Hertzog hinted that he might ask the King-Emperor's brother-in-law to dissolve the Dominion Parliament and call a general election as early as next January, perhaps even before Christmas...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SOUTH AFRICA: Nigger Crisis | 11/19/1928 | See Source »

...religious journalist, onetime Methodist minister; of diabetes; in Nice, France. For almost 20 years Dr. Crane's daily, syndicated 600-word sermons reached 20,000,000 readers. They have been collected in 45 volumes. Dr. Crane's estimated annual income was $150,000. "If you should ask me," he wrote, "whether I am a Trinitarian or a Unitarian, a Catholic or a Protestant, Fundamentalist or Modernist, Methodist or Baptist, you might as well ask if I am a Guelph or a Ghibelline...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Nov. 19, 1928 | 11/19/1928 | See Source »

Lottie Pickford, lesser cinemactress, sister of Mary Pickford, attended a Los Angeles night club, left it at 2 A. M. with one Jack Daugherty. Soon lost, they stopped to ask directions to Hollywood. Four men came up and knocked-out Mr. Daugherty with a blackjack. Then they grabbed little Lottie Pickford and drove away with her, beating and kicking her, taking $75 away from her. They did not get her diamond rings because she hid them in her shoes. While they were trying to rip a platinum bracelet from her wrist, she screamed at them in Spanish. This caused them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Nov. 19, 1928 | 11/19/1928 | See Source »

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