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Word: captains (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...tired, wooden, what-does-it-matter manner. In his latest film, A Night of Mystery, adapted from Victorien Sardou's Ferreol, he puts on the silken cloak of a gallant French officer as yawningly as a dull waiter ties a greasy apron around his belly. Mr. Menjou as Captain Ferreol is confronted with a tough problem: he must either reveal his onetime relations with a lady whom he had loved illicitly or allow the brother of his own fiancee to be hanged for a murder of which the boy is innocent. Taking the only way out, Captain Ferreol says...

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

...Canary Islands some fishermen found a man lying exhausted in the bottom of a 20-foot row boat. He, Captain Franz...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Records: May 21, 1928 | 5/21/1928 | See Source »

Batteries of cameras had ceased clicking and the last flashlight had done its part in filling the room with clouds of smoke. The three Bremen flyers, Baron von Huenefeld, Captain Koehl, and Major Fitzmaurice, fought their way through cheering Bostonians and tangled folds of the banners of massed American legionaries from the Colonial Room of the Ritz-Carlton Hotel yesterday afternoon following the Hub's reception to the trio. The sole means of escape was by way of the hotel's rear kitchen elevator, where the besieged flyers, thinking themselves free from further annoyances, found a CRIMSON reporter...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Bremen Flyers Saved From Throngs of Legionaries by Rear Kitchen Elevator--Say Airplanes Will Outlast Zeppelins | 5/21/1928 | See Source »

...geevs me great, great pleasure to make wis ze great American 'enemy' shake hend," laughed Captain Koehl, waving to the medal-bedecked flag-bearer of the Legion, and sighing with relief as the elevator doors slammed...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Bremen Flyers Saved From Throngs of Legionaries by Rear Kitchen Elevator--Say Airplanes Will Outlast Zeppelins | 5/21/1928 | See Source »

Singles--Lavine (P) defeated Captain B. H. Whitbeck '29, 4-6, 6-0, 6-2; M. T. Hill '30 defeated Hofkin (P), 6-4, 7-5, Arthur Ingraham '30 defeated Stanger (P), 6-4, 6-4; Simons (P) defeated E. B. Ward '30, 6-1, 6-2, J. H. Appleton '29 defeated Kraft (P), 3-6, 6-1, 6-4; J. L. Ware '30 defeated Kardon...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: NET TEAM LOSES CLOSE MATCH TO PENN BY 5 TO 4 | 5/21/1928 | See Source »

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