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Word: better (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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Iowa looked a shade better than Michigan but could not prove it. Neither scored...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Football: Dec. 2, 1929 | 12/2/1929 | See Source »

...have wintered in Madrid know Alba as the gay Grandee who owns the flock of brown dachshunds. At all his balls and some-times at the King's they romp and yap among the dancers' legs?especially the one called Jimmie. But Alba's brown dachshunds are much better ball-broken than the two famed black dachshunds of erst Kaiser Wilhelm II, which more than once appalled the Imperial Court at Berlin. With expression meek as mice, the Alba browns have been painted with their master by Spain's most aristocratic portraitist, Ignacio Zuloaga. Not yapping Jimmie but affectionate, face...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SPAIN: Gay Grandee | 12/2/1929 | See Source »

...After second phlebitis, though feeling much better, am still in bed. Traveling December practically impossible.. Practicing at present unthinkable. Considering circumstances, tour should be postponed until next season. Inexpressibly sorry to have caused so much trouble and disappointment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Strings | 12/2/1929 | See Source »

...which was credited for reviving a vogue in historical costume pictures. Son of a Berlin storekeeper, Lubitsch learned about acting from a comedian named Victor Arnold and from Max Reinhardt, who hired him for a while. After the Negri pictures, he showed that he was even better at comedy than serious things. He colored The Marriage Circle with a sophisticated, subtle wit. Last year he made The Patriot. Burly, with a habit of scowling slightly, he likes sun baths, rye bread, practical jokes. He treats the young women working for him with waggish irascibility. Complained Miss MacDonald, neophyte, last week...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures Dec. 2, 1929 | 12/2/1929 | See Source »

...department store?two sisters and the youth they were competing for. It has been made into a satisfactory program picture that was advertised at some houses last week without a title in the firesign, being indicated simply as "Clara Bow's Latest." The Saturday Night Kid is a better product than such emphasis on its star's drawing-power seems to imply. Although the plot is composed of such familiar elements as one sister's sacrifices for another who repays her by stealing her clothes and her fiance's affections, it is effective because it gives the well-made, impetuous...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures Dec. 2, 1929 | 12/2/1929 | See Source »

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