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Word: blackness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...with it. Some undergraduate must have noticed that young men in business and about town did not go about in such Eskimoish gear. He probably felt it was a bit rah-rah. Then somebody said "collegiate." That ended it, and it began to give way to the more genteel black derby and the chesterfield...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Fur-Bearing Animal | 3/9/1929 | See Source »

Detectives from Scotland Yard being perennial favorites, Author George Dilnot catalogs their technique; and includes, gratuitously, a murder, escape, poison, embezzlement, beautiful heroine, mad villain ?all in The Black Ace (Houghton-Mifflin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Standard and Travesty | 3/4/1929 | See Source »

...slender, black-haired Manhattanite, Racqueteer Sheldon learned at Eton his fast, dashing, strong-on-the-backhand game...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Racquets | 3/4/1929 | See Source »

...first picture, The Lamb, for the old Triangle company for $2,000 a week, he developed a type of film peculiar to himself, spent $700,000 on The Three Musketeers, almost as much on Robin Hood. Other famous ones: The Nut, The Thief of Bagdad, Don Q, The Black Pirate, The Gaucho...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures Mar. 4, 1929 | 3/4/1929 | See Source »

Publisher Van Lear Black of Baltimore was flying over Southern Egypt last week on his gadabout trip from England to Cape Town...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AERONAUTICS: Flights of the Week: Mar. 4, 1929 | 3/4/1929 | See Source »

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