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Word: dinners (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...messages, the poisoned needle springing from the clasp of a cigaret box. When at last the Master Criminal lies dead and the fiance of the daughter of his old friend is restored to society, he punctuates with a tap of his pipe the famed, "Eleementary, Watson, eleementary." Best shot: dinner 'for two in the arch-fiend's cabin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures Nov. 4, 1929 | 11/4/1929 | See Source »

Eccentric Harald Plum has long been Copenhagen's butter Croesus. The boom of a cannon across the harbor came to mean merely that he was through business for the day and had sailed out to Plum Island, to chomp voraciously through a rich dinner topped with pastry and champagne...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DENMARK: Plum the Great | 11/4/1929 | See Source »

...riveting machine, which looks like a dentist's forceps. Admiral Moffett places the rivet in the proper hole, squeezes it with his little machine. The band plays "Pomp and Circumstance." The band then plays "The Star-Spangled Banner" and the gathering breaks up. That evening there is a dinner at Akron's Portage Country Club...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AERONAUTICS: Gold Rivet | 11/4/1929 | See Source »

Plans for all special trains include leaving Ann Arbor shortly after the game Saturday in order to reach Detroit before 7.30 o'clock, when a dinner will be held at the Hotel Statler for all Harvard men and their guests. J. L. Valentine '98, vice president of the Central Division of Associated Harvard Clubs, will preside at the dinner...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MANY ALUMNI PLAN TRIP TO ANN ARBOR | 11/2/1929 | See Source »

...causes of friction between Dominion and U. S.: 1) The proposed U. S. agricultural tariffs infuriating to Canada's farmers; 2) Control of liquor smuggling; 3) Allotment of radio wavelengths of which Canadians are sure they have received no fair share. Speech of the Week. At the State Dinner in Canada's Parliament House, candid MacDonald revealed a trifle of what had passed before the log fire at "Kingsmere." Host King, a stickler for Canada's rights, had warned him not to speak possessively of "our Dominions" or "our Colonies." With a twinkle, the Mother Country...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: No War: No Blockade | 10/28/1929 | See Source »

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