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Word: dolls (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...stockmarket, Paramount has kept as simple as possible this story about the big trader who is a sucker in love. The Wolf explains stratagems to his partners with a blackboard and pointer in a way that can be understood by anyone who can cut out a paper doll. That this will bore persons familiar with Wall Street methods is unlikely, however, for Mrs. Wolf's infidelities are effectively and seductively acted by Olga Baclanova. Best shot : Miss Baclanova biting her honey's ear. Olga Baclanova has the best singing voice in the cinema business. Her father, a Moscow...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures Feb. 11, 1929 | 2/11/1929 | See Source »

...paying sixpence one was entitled to guess the names of a boy doll and a girl doll; and if one guessed both names correctly one might take the midgets home. Clearly this was no "lottery," this was not "gambling," and so Mrs. Baldwin took a sixpence from her purse and laid it charitably on the counter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Divine Providence! | 1/21/1929 | See Source »

...Baldwin!" cried the attendant at the doll booth, "You must guess. Please, you really must!" and the eyes of the attendant, a blooming, wholesome girl, twinkled, danced...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Divine Providence! | 1/21/1929 | See Source »

...Jealous Moon. Jane Cowl, indisputably among the more decorative of Manhattan's heroines, put herself to the perhaps necessary task of writing a play that would deserve embellishments by her upon the stage. The play was romantically sweet, about Pierrot, Columbine and Scaramouche. A designer of dolls, dreaming in far from Freudian fashion of their unfortunate intrigues, found advices in it for his own and on waking up for the epilogue, promised to be true to Judy. Jane Cowl was Judy and, in the doll-designer's dream, she played the part of Columbine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Dec. 3, 1928 | 12/3/1928 | See Source »

...Chicago, Mr. and Mrs. Antonio Contrera appeared before Judge Gemmill to secure a divorce. Antonio Contrera, 25, charged misconduct. Maria M. Contrera charged cruelty. A pretty 13-year-old Mexican, she carried with her into the court a doll...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Oct. 8, 1928 | 10/8/1928 | See Source »

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