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Word: cliff (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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Deftly, even dumbly, lie has poised on the cliff of fancy the future of the United Fruit Company. And how well Miss Fyre from the School of Dramatics While you Wait read her correspondence. To say that these schools like the great Sears. Roebuck cannot breen genius is to verge on the truth. And imagine verging on the truth. In fact imagine verging anyway. Miss Fvre sees Etta Banana's tragedy and shuts her eyes. I remembered, as I saw her, that famous evening when the great and only Eddie Foy, his family and I filled the old Madison Square...

Author: By D. G. G., | Title: THE CRIME | 12/8/1926 | See Source »

Daisy Mayme, middle-aged merchant-maid of Harrisburg, lonesome but always laughing, meets Cliff Mettinger, bachelor, and his orphan niece on the bright shore at Atlantic City. She goes to Cliff's suburban home as the family guest, there to encounter feminine intrigue: Cliff's two sisters eager for his money. During the downpour of a domestic storm, Daisy blossoms forth a late but hardy bride. As usual, Mr. Kelly subordinates action to characterization and dialogue, with the result that his play moves slowly. As usual, Mr. Kelly's protagonists tell Mr. Kelly's antagonists just...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: New Plays: Nov. 8, 1926 | 11/8/1926 | See Source »

...many thrills out of three people balanced on the edge of a beetling cliff...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: New Pictures: Nov. 1, 1926 | 11/1/1926 | See Source »

...Nicaraguan coast, lies Santa Catalina island, called Providence by the English, but known to the world of readers as "Treasure Island" This little isle made famous by the magic of Robert Lonis Stevenson's pen is a barren but romantic spot with a rocky cliff towering 180 feet in the air. This entire coast was once the haunt of the buccaneers, and the people of the island still show traces of the freebooters...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SPINDEN TELLS OF TRIP TO HONDURAS | 10/19/1926 | See Source »

...motorman opened a valve, admitting water to the mechanism which works the railway. Gently jolting, the car moved perpendicularly up the cliff, atop which is perched the glorious white marble Sacre Coeur. Courteous, the Abbe Loubiere pointed out the "sights." Awed by the splendor of the view, slightly seasick at the sheer drop below them, the three tourists barkened eagerly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Gift to America | 9/27/1926 | See Source »

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