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Word: doings (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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The MacDonald birthplace was a-but-and-a-ben, a two-room structure with a thatched roof, one door.-ED. Judge Lynch Sirs: I have just read Negro White's "Judge Lynch." What a dirty lot of lies. I have read a number of articles by both white and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Jul. 8, 1929 | 7/8/1929 | See Source »

Maine has been a Dry State for 75 years. Arthur Robinson Gould was elected in 1926 as one of its Dry Senators. Last week Senator Gould, 72-year-old Yankee, was involuntarily shown to be not so Dry as many of his constituents had supposed. The revelation came during a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PROHIBITION: Man from Maine | 7/8/1929 | See Source »

Cousins Robert Rutherford McCormick and Joseph Medill Patterson, publishers of the strident Chicago Tribune, gave themselves and each other a Christmas present last week, five years in advance. In the Tribune, over both their signatures [magnified to seven-inch lengths], they published an "estimate" of what their national nickel-weekly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Christmas Present | 7/1/1929 | See Source »

Julie's story begins when she falls in love with an officer, socially her superior. After considerable blood and thunder set against the background of Napoleon's famed Russian campaign of 1812, the two do not marry. Instead the officer turns civilian, the girl remain's an...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Bride of an Army | 7/1/1929 | See Source »

BALLOON-A Comedy in Four Acts- Padriac Colum-Macmillan ($2). Caspar rents his telescope in the Square (Act 1) in Megalapolis, a city much like Dublin. He deserts his trade to do a heroic thing: to go into the Hotel Daedalus, first to its Cafe (Act 2), then higher to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Irish Hero | 7/1/1929 | See Source »

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