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Word: briens (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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Equipped with Frederick O'Brien's book bearing this name, a Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer squad sailed for Tahiti in the South Sea Islands to make a picture. In the squad were that frazzled lover, Monte Blue, and a 20-year-old Mexican girl named Raquel Torres. At Tahiti, the squad got natives to fill out the cast, paid them with canned salmon, flour, toilet water, shaving cream, mirrors. Everybody might have enjoyed a good time, had it not been for the rain and the heat, which combined to produce a disease called rain-tan. Even when...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures Aug. 13, 1928 | 8/13/1928 | See Source »

According to figures approved by Postmaster P. P. O'Brien of Los Angeles, Miss Bow received 35,339 letters during the month of June, 33,727 during...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bug Clutter | 8/13/1928 | See Source »

...Indiana presents ... a son of its pioneers . . ."?William H. O'Brien nominating Indiana's Woollen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DEMOCRATS: The Nomination | 7/9/1928 | See Source »

...Brien's speech was 79 words long...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DEMOCRATS: The Nomination | 7/9/1928 | See Source »

Honor Bound. A southern woman (Estelle Taylor, also known as Mrs. Jack Dempsey) shoots her first husband and allows honorable John Ogletree (George O'Brien) to go to prison for manslaughter. She marries again, persuades her second husband to use honorable Convict Ogletree as a chauffeur. One fine evening, she makes advances to honorable Chauffeur Ogletree; but he repulses her and wrecks the automobile while doing so. She is injured; her husband suspects honorable Wrecker Ogletree, sends him back to prison to labor and be flogged. In the end, honorable Hero Ogletree finds a virtuous nurse and Mrs. Jack Dempsey...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures May 21, 1928 | 5/21/1928 | See Source »

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