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Word: cristo (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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Juliette Brucz, with a passion for Dumas novels, turned the gas on her sleeping husband and went upstairs to read The Count of Monte Cristo...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Four Furies | 3/11/1929 | See Source »

...police, knowing their mob, avoided trouble by debarking Algeria's Barbe Bleu at the island in the harbor of Marseilles on which stands the Chateau d'If, made famed by Duma's Monte Cristo...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Bluebeard Week | 7/16/1928 | See Source »

...membered a few intensely recognizable bits of childhood: her stray animals' cemetery, with a particularly fine brick for canary David's headstone; her turning agnostic because no God smote her for saying "golly-golly-golly" all through church; her discovery of The Count of Monte Cristo, and amazement, on being called to supper, that all her humdrum world was going on just as usual...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Golly-Golly | 5/21/1928 | See Source »

...Playwright. Eugene Gladstone O'Neill is the son of actor James O'Neill, famed across the U. S. in earlier days as Monte Cristo. With his trouping father and a devoted mother, not an actress, he spent staccato years in larger cities where James O'Neill was acting. After that, school days under Catholic and later conventional preparatory schoolmasters. Then a year at Princeton, whence he was fired for a "prank." Then an inordinate mixture of oddities. He worked in a mail order firm in Manhattan; went gold prospecting to Honduras; shipped as a common sailor to South American ports...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Feb. 13, 1928 | 2/13/1928 | See Source »

...less: Peter Schuyler, Rob ert Burns, (Daniel) Webster,f (Vitus) Bering (discoverer of the Straits), ‡ William Penn, Raphael, Duke of Savoy, Flor de Spencer, Hanan Bros. (Shoe People), Tom Wilson, Lady Churchill, Captain Marryat. More than 15 cents: Henry Clay, Manuel Garcia. Cigars named after fictional persons: Monte Cristo, Robin Hood...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Affront | 6/1/1925 | See Source »

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