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Word: facing (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Dempsey, sunburned, deliberate and scowling, with an old red sweater thrown over his shoulders and a three days' beard on his chin, climbed through the ropes of a ring and sat down in his corner, people always felt sorry for his opponent. How terrible it would be to face that hunched body with the enormous shoulders, endure the glare of those narrowed black eyes. . . . Last week in a District Court in Manhattan Jack Dempsey climbed into a chair and sat down. He had on a new suit, his fierce black eyes looked sheepish. He stuck his thumbs into...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Champions | 4/30/1928 | See Source »

Sued for Divorce. Harry Langdon, famed baby-face cinecomedian (Long Pants, The Chaser, etc.), by Mrs. Frances Langdon of Los Angeles. They have been married twenty-four years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Apr. 30, 1928 | 4/30/1928 | See Source »

...impending descendant talked about in print? A McCormick? A Swift? A Wrigley? An Insull? Whatever may have been their anticipations, none of these were named last week as prospective parents. Perhaps then a politician or a gangster was expecting: was Big Bill Thompson about to be a parent? Scar-Face Al Capone, had he a blushing hope ? Or was it Len Small who was soon to gain an issue...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Blessed Event | 4/30/1928 | See Source »

...choose that curious monosyllable by chance; Ritz was his last name; his first, splendidly enough, was César. The son of a Swiss farmer, his first skirmish among European hostelries occurred when he opened a restaurant in Baden-Baden, the Kurhaus. He boasted that he never forgot a face. But the éclat which attached itself to his restaurant requires a more complete explanation. César Ritz read faces as well as remembering them; he was an instinctive & selective snob, one of those likeable snobs whose hauteur is inherent; he did not consciously single out his richer patrons...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Cesar's Cities | 4/30/1928 | See Source »

...Anti-Saloon League, testified in his counter divorce suit against Mrs. Kresge that she offered to bear him a child if he would pay her $10,000,000. "At that time [April, 1925]," complained Mr. Kresge, "she took a Bible* in her hand, shook it in my face and said: 'I swear to God if you don't do what I want there will be the biggest exposé-the biggest scandal you ever heard of.' " Mr. Kresge did not give her the $10,000,000 and she later proved that he was an adulterer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Apr. 30, 1928 | 4/30/1928 | See Source »

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