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Word: doned (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Presidential office." His determination was to prevent his nomination and to this end he sent his secretary Everett Sanders-"a man of great ability and discretion"-to Kansas City to divert convention votes for him. Wrote Mr. Coolidge (Editor Ray Long of Cosmopolitan italicized it) : "Had I not done so, I am told, I should have been nominated...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: The Coolidge Why | 4/15/1929 | See Source »

...arms fasten him, innocently, generously, but so tightly that he can never escape. He tries, of course, but finds that his ambition has been diluted by emotion. He settles down in the environment he hates, trapped, but sure that he will not vegetate as all the others have done before him, as even he is beginning to do as the final curtain falls...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Apr. 15, 1929 | 4/15/1929 | See Source »

...There is a Bavarian prince who falls in love with the daughter of an umbrella maker. There are plenty of students about to break into melody at the faintest hint of a song cue. And there is the sputtery gentleman who provides the comedy. It is all very well done, with a rousing score, and bright contributions by Solly Ward, Gertrude Lang, Bartlett Simmons, Greek Evans. Best song: "Unto Your Heart...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Apr. 15, 1929 | 4/15/1929 | See Source »

...foreign prince, a U. S. millionaire, a lady, and a tiger, which has been told before but never so effectively. In the 1914 manner of the cinema, it was a story of marital infidelity as crude and tawdry as its papier-mâché settings. As done in the 1919 epoch, it was a heavy-footed charade, overburdened with its setting. Now, a vehicle for Greta Garbo's disturbing shadow, it moves lightly, even wittily, and the lady's momentary struggle between her husband's coldness and the impetuosity of the prince takes place against...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures Apr. 15, 1929 | 4/15/1929 | See Source »

...hereafter on Sundays as well as week days in an effort to fix as soon as possible how much more than minimum the Fatherland must pay. This surplus above the Allied needs for repayment to the U. S. is supposed to partially cover the cost of repairing War damage done by German forces by land, sea, and air. Reputedly, the Young Memorandum contains a tentative statement of what might be considered the just "reconstruction claims" of each of the Allied Powers. If cables spoke true, last week, acceptance of these recommendations by the chairman would mean cutting almost in half...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: Young Memorandum | 4/15/1929 | See Source »

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