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Word: doings (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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Something ought to be done about this. Even though bees do possess sour dispositions often scarcely compensated by their sweet production, it should be remembered that they are too ignorant, or too wise, to form protective unions, and, as insects, cannot appeal to the S. P. C. A. for justice...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BEE WARNED | 1/8/1929 | See Source »

"I expect to see entire operas staged for the Vitaphone in a few years. Whether or not it will do away with the stage presentation is another matter, but it is certain that heretofore we have had nothing that even remotely approached the vivid manner in which the 'talkies' present...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Werrenrath, Famous Baritone, Defends America's Lack of Talented Composers--Predicts Great Future for Vitaphone | 1/8/1929 | See Source »

Someone, talking about Walter P. Chrysler two years ago, said: "The biggest game stays in the deep forest." The reference was to Mr. Chrysler's relative obscurity from the public eye during the years when he was the greatest doctor of sick automobile companies that the industry had ever...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Chrysler Motors | 1/7/1929 | See Source »

Mrs. Chrysler was not very much pleased, especially when she discovered that her husband did not mean to get some good out of so much extravagance by driving it around Oelwein. Instead, what did he do but take it all apart, put it all together and take it all apart...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Chrysler Motors | 1/7/1929 | See Source »

The business of placing the condemned man in the electric chair is quickly and simply done. Then-"as the switch is thrown into its socket there is a sputtering drone, and the body leaps as if to break the strong leather straps that hold it. Sometimes a thin gray wisp...

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

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