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Word: doings (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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On the northeast shore of Lake Michi- gan they say (some Indians do) that there is a drum of the Manitou that sounds whenever the Lake takes a life. If so, the Manitou's drum sounded 52 times one night last week.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CATASTROPHE: Lake Boats | 11/4/1929 | See Source »

The defense reeked with sentimentality and patriotism. Lawyer Hogan made the women of the jury weep. Doheny on the witness stand cried easily and often. Frequent were the references to Fall's bad health. Lawyer Thompson tried to describe "a red haired young man" (Doheny) and "a black haired...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CORRUPTION: First Felon | 11/4/1929 | See Source »

Mrs. Fiske's rapid, casual delivery's, as ever, expert and sometimes unintelligible. Of the tricks of emphasis and accent she is still past-mistress. In this disappointing play she is accompanied by another oldtimer, Wilton Lackaye, who made mesmerist Svengali famous (Trilby, 1895), who returns, after a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Nov. 4, 1929 | 11/4/1929 | See Source »

Like many a young woman now earning a good living in the show business, Lenore Ulric never had much luck until she went to work for David Belasco. Her father was a steward in an army hospital in Milwaukee. She was born in New Ulm, Minn. She ran away from...

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

After weeks of standing on street corners and long periods of being marooned in the center of a passing stream of automobiles. The Vagabond determined to revolt against the traffic system which so formidably threatens his career, nay his very existence. Unfortunately a call on Mayor Quinn was discouraged by...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Student Vagabond | 11/2/1929 | See Source »

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