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Word: booth (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...London show an official of the British Broadcasting Company tut-tutted over the troubles of George V, with radio interference and promised His Majesty perfect reception with a new type of set. Meanwhile Queen Mary had strolled off to a booth where "Nosey Parkers" were for sale. When an attendant donned one of those clever rubber masks and blew up the nose to a grotesque, bulbous protuberance, Her Majesty reached for her purse. Perhaps she bought the "Nosey Parker'' to entertain her small and only granddaughter, "Baby Betty," 22 months old, daughter of the Duke & Duchess of York...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Empire Fair | 3/5/1928 | See Source »

...Allen, Jr., Chairman, and Barbara Haruth; J. W. Bethell and Margaret Eastman; E. C. Booth and Jeanette Gow; C. del, Solar and Beatrice Allen; C. H. Granger and Cecille Stanley; C. A. Stewart, Jr., and Roberta Robinson...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 250 COUPLES FILL 1929 DANCE BOXES | 2/29/1928 | See Source »

...Booth Brothers (8 papers in Michigan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Periodicals | 2/27/1928 | See Source »

...similarly acting cylinder, where 300,000 more volts gave a final kick. The rays cascaded out of the apparatus at 175,000 miles per second-almost as fast as light, 350,000 times faster than a rifle bullet. Dr. Coolidge watched them, hiding within a lead-lined, lead-paned booth so that he might not be injured by the incalculable effects of his experiments...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Cascading Electrons | 2/27/1928 | See Source »

Married. Supreme Court Justice Townsend Scudder, 63, presiding Judge in the Snyder-Gray murder trial, investigator of the Queens (New York City) sewer scandal, potential Democratic candidate for the Governorship of New York; to Miss Alice Booth McCutcheon, 42, daughter of the late James McCutcheon, linen merchant, and founder of the Manhattan store of that name; at Greenwich, Conn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Jan. 30, 1928 | 1/30/1928 | See Source »

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