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Word: classics (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...classic Architecture in Italy." Mr. Opdycke, Fogg Museum...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Student Vagabond | 5/5/1928 | See Source »

Coach E. L. Farrell of the University track team characterized the field which will enter the sprinting events in the coming I. C. 4A. track classic as strong but not as fast as last year...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: TRACK COACH DISCUSSES I.C.A.A.A.A. SPRINTERS | 5/3/1928 | See Source »

...play Ben Jonson's sardonic comedy, they chose to retranslate the German version recently effected by Stefan Zweig. Their choice was wise. As rewritten by an up-to-date European, Author Jonson's somewhat mechanical morality becomes a gleeful and raucous farce, lacking the solemnity of a classic and imbued instead with precisely the caustic and colloquial violence which it had for its original audiences...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Apr. 23, 1928 | 4/23/1928 | See Source »

...HALF-HEARTED" will never, it seems fairly safe to prophesy, become a classic of English literature, but it is a highly readable, plain novel. There is nothing complicated or enigmatic about the plot or its characters. There is nothing startlingly original, but on the other hand there is little that is annoyingly hackneyed or trite...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BOOKENDS | 4/21/1928 | See Source »

...emotions of Rose Shannon, night club dancer who loved a handsome bank robber (Conrad Nagel). Eventually, wildly, wrongly, she is suspected of stealing, is arrested, scared under the third degree, where the spoken dialogue is first heard. To end this whole experimental footage, the actors use the academic, classic embrace...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures Mar. 26, 1928 | 3/26/1928 | See Source »

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