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Word: bloods (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...team which included young Tommy and Stevenson and many another youngster who now has an international rating. It was she who in 1921 polished the play of the 16-year-old Guest, then a raw but distinguished immigrant to the U. S. from England. Polo is in the Hitchcock blood. Thomas Hitchcock Jr. ranks with Devereaux Milburn and possibly Lewis Lacey as one of the two or three greatest of the polo great...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Fours | 9/10/1928 | See Source »

...consolation, denied that she had ever counselled violence, threw open her blue prison blouse and showed reporters a cross branded on her breast, said: "In suffering there is redemption. I've been happy all the time I've been in jail-would give drop by drop my blood, if I could end this conflict...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MEXICO: Nun's Tale | 9/3/1928 | See Source »

...honor of the Spaniard is based on pure subjective passion, the pathos of the lone individual. ... Self-help alone appeals to him as being both sensible and justified. ... The impartial judge who in cold blood sentences to death ... must in the eyes of the Spaniard rank lower than the murderer. ... Spain belongs not to Europe but to Africa...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BOOKS ABROAD: Keyserling's Europe* | 9/3/1928 | See Source »

...worthless. So does David Lubin, his elegant nephew who arrives from Australia. The clan has become decadent and these two are about to go bankrupt, for some reason, when word arrives that another and hitherto forgotten relative has died in the Antipodes, leaving them a fortune. Thus convinced that blood is a bit thicker than water, the supposedly comic relatives shake hands all around and the play is over...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Sep. 3, 1928 | 9/3/1928 | See Source »

...with his wife but, using the one-two punch that can be as effective in a play as in a prize-ring, Author Rideout does more than answer his suspense. The prancing Senegalese is a faithful friend to Israel Dubois; seeing that his friend and the officer have bad blood between them, he starts for the Major with his knife, and Israel Dubois, who has drawn gun to shoot his white master, feels the tug of an ancient loyalty and kills his black friend instead...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Sep. 3, 1928 | 9/3/1928 | See Source »

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