Search Details

Word: distant (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

...college styles AS THEY are really GOING to be worn IN the not so very DISTANT FUTURE WE HAVE a few very pertinent SUGGESTIONS to make, AS IN all matters of such GREAT IMPORT we SHALL BEGIN at the BOTTOM and work up (a steam...

Author: By J. H. S., | Title: THE CRIME | 11/9/1927 | See Source »

...handsome Anglo-Saxon heroes in the part of Latin apaches. In the second place, there is scarcely a flaw in the artistic perfection of the producers' achievement. Scenes, costumes, and settings are consistently as they should be; anachronistic details do not crop out to disrupt the atmosphere of a distant time and place...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CRIMSON PLAYGOER | 11/3/1927 | See Source »

...Plaster offending molar with chewing-gum. "On Aug. 12 the writer had cause to be greatly annoyed after trying the above methods without results. He then opened the current issue of TIME, and, upon glancing up, much to his surprise found train pulling into his station, two hours distant. Toothache had vanished...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Oct. 24, 1927 | 10/24/1927 | See Source »

...distant U. S., at South Bend. Ind., Prince William of Sweden was apprised of the birth of a daughter to his cousin, Princess Astrid. Asked whether he intended to cable his congratulations to Prince Leopold, the Prince replied...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BELGIUM: A Mother | 10/24/1927 | See Source »

...belief. She believes that the state should endow a low-priced theatre for the masses. "But the state isn't interested in such things." Miss Le Gallienne solved this conflict between her faith and her belief last season by founding in Manhattan the Civic Repertory Theatre. She has distant plans for a theatre which, supported by one-dollar subscriptions from a tiny percentage of the city's citizens, could give notable drama for a fee of 50? a seat. These things Miss Le Gallienne told journalists last week. Journalist's discovered that the $5,000 which...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre Notes, Oct. 24, 1927 | 10/24/1927 | See Source »

Previous | 18 | 19 | 20 | 21 | 22 | 23 | 24 | 25 | 26 | 27 | 28 | 29 | 30 | 31 | 32 | 33 | 34 | 35 | 36 | 37 | 38 | Next