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Word: doings (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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The Dummy (Paramount). Writers of stones for boys succeed only when they make up the kind of stories that boys would make up if they could make up stories. Somehow the adventures of one Mickey Bennett when he is sent to be kidnaped so as to enable a detective, trailing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures Mar. 18, 1929 | 3/18/1929 | See Source »

Reparations problem. As the work progressed no public utterance was made by any member of the U.S., French, German or Japanese delegations, but the British and Italian chief delegates expressed themselves briefly. Sir Josiah Stamp: "There are three sides to our problem-political, financial and economic. And as soon as...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: A Nice House | 3/18/1929 | See Source »

Of course Mr. Root did not come as the official representative of President Hoover, though he came from him. just as Statesman Stimson went to settle the Nicaraguan situation "from" President Coolidge. He had no title, no authority except a tacit understanding that he spoke for the President. Nowadays U.S...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WORLD COURT: Naturally | 3/18/1929 | See Source »

Unable to pay a judgment assessed by a London court, last week, Reception Clerk Barker submitted quietly to arrest for "contempt of court," and was driven in a patrol wagon to Brixton Prison for males. After scrutinizing Transvestite Barker, the prison surgeon ordered her transferred to Holloway Jail for females...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Transvestite | 3/18/1929 | See Source »

Eighteen thousand warriors?the greatest single army in recent Mexican history ?were rumbling out of Mexico City in freight cars, led by ex-President General Plutarco Elias Calles, to do battle with the rebels in Durango, Chihuahua and Sonora. As bombing planes roared into the zenith, as President Herbert...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MEXICO: Again, Mexitl | 3/18/1929 | See Source »

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