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Word: beaches (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Patriot (Emil Jannings): a crazy Tsar trusts Lewis Stone. Lonesome (Glenn Tryon): Two bathhouse keys clink on the beach. The Docks of New York (George Bancroft): Night-life of a stoker. The Night Watch (Billie Dove): Murder on a French battleship told in retakes from the trial. The Singing Fool (Jolson): Eight mammy-songs. The Air Circus: Planes on the Vitaphone...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Citations | 10/29/1928 | See Source »

...women alone. Meighan wants a wife and no jezebelling so he goes to Ellis Island and makes a deal with an immigrant girl, Renee Adoree. A subplot (Roscoe has a mistress) makes possible a climax complicated in synopsis but effective melodrama on the screen. James Cruze directed and Rex Beach, who taught many studio writers all they know about making a thriller, wrote the story. Best shot: Renee Adoree in swimming at night in a coal black river. Good entertainment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures Oct. 22, 1928 | 10/22/1928 | See Source »

Lonesome (Glenn Tryon)?A young machinist meets a telephone girl on the beach among a lot of camera tricks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Citations | 10/22/1928 | See Source »

Michael Abbatemarco, supposedly Uale's successor in Brooklyn, has been heard to scorn bodyguards with the fatalistic philosophy that if he was going to be killed he could not avoid it. Last week he quit a card game in Bath Beach, Brooklyn, at 4 A. M. He drove away in a glossy coupe. One half hour later the car was stopped, the motor running. Michael sprawled limply over the wheel. Three bullets were in his head, one in his chest. A shadowy figure walked off across a vacant lot, dropped an automatic pistol...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Yale Echoes | 10/15/1928 | See Source »

John North Willys, automobileman, has an estate near Oyster Bay, Long Island. On the estate is a private beach. On the beach was found floating last week the body of a dead man. On the man was only underwear. His clothes, discovered later on the Willys beach, contained the following memo: "Sunday-Took a trip to Oyster Bay. The afternoon is sunny and cheerful. Sorry I did not bring my bathing suit, as I find quite a few bathing and enjoying it." The ill-fated intruder on Mr. Willys' private beach was identified as R. A. Richard, Manhattan salesman...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Oct. 8, 1928 | 10/8/1928 | See Source »

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