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Word: carly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...tennis championship, weekly or oftener takes a bath in starched water to preserve her beauty. Once she danced with the Prince of Wales and won a diving contest staged for him. Once she won a medal by holding a smile longer than other competing actresses. She drives a Chrysler car, dresses in a room mounted on wheels, likes rice pudding, consults fortune tellers. Most of her pictures have been vapid dramas of high life, assigned to her because of her social background: Pleasure Mad, Broken Barriers, His Secretary, The Latest from Paris, Slave of Fashion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures Aug. 26, 1929 | 8/26/1929 | See Source »

...Vladikavkas we wangled tickets on the railroad to Moscow. There were 13 of us in the car including a Russian general. We thought he was a porter and tipped him for getting us tea. My dear, how could we tell? All he had on was a pair of pants and an openwork undershirt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: Soviets Prefer Brunettes | 8/26/1929 | See Source »

...Ingalls) were in Berlin when a party of 99 U. S. notables passed through en route to Moscow on a tour arranged by the American-Russian Chamber of Commerce. Next day Socialite Cogswell and Morgan-Niece Ingalls decided that they wanted to tour Russia too, hopped onto a sleeping car to catch up and join the U. S. party...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: Soviets Prefer Brunettes | 8/26/1929 | See Source »

...Odessa, Mo., one Farmer Shupee, his wife, son and daughter-in-law were attacked in their auto by a swarm of bees. Mrs. Shupee at the wheel, sorely stung, sideswiped the car ahead, drove into a ditch, killed Farmer Shupee...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Aug. 26, 1929 | 8/26/1929 | See Source »

Near Royal, Ill., a turtle climbed upon the west rail of a Chicago & Eastern Illinois R. R. track, sat down. Along putputted a "trouble car" carrying one H. Duncan, telephone workman, at 20 m. p. h. Workman Duncan was derailed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Aug. 26, 1929 | 8/26/1929 | See Source »

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