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Word: fewness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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Brokenly the great Parisian heart specialist, Dr. de Gennes, exclaimed to the reporters: "Pray to heaven, gentlemen, that no further relapse occurs. Each leads our glorious patient a few steps further down the ladder of Life."

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Down the Ladder | 3/25/1929 | See Source »

Sonny Boy (Warner). Cast as the title of a theme-song, young Davey Lee created in The Singing Fool a demand for a picture in which he would be starred. Few critics dared to suppose that the vehicle would be more than a sentimental nimbus around the small Lee smile...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures Mar. 25, 1929 | 3/25/1929 | See Source »

The Octoroon. Hissing the villain and shouting directions to the hero came back into vogue with the revival of After Dark a few months ago, at Christopher Morley's Theatre in Hoboken (see above). This is another by the author of After Dark. Dragged from its pre-war (Civil...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Mar. 25, 1929 | 3/25/1929 | See Source »

The Man. A white hedonist basking deliciously among South Sea Islanders and a sturdy Cape Codder poising his malicious harpoon over boiling seas, join incongruously in the popular impression of Herman Melville. As a matter of fact, he was born of eminently conforming New Englanders and but for a few...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Melville the Great | 3/25/1929 | See Source »

Short hauls to Rome, N. Y., long hauls to Albany, the oldtime "canawlers" of the Erie Canal made with boatloads of machinery and produce. It was a leisurely existence, drifting along four miles an hour behind stout teams that trudged the towpath. For a few months Dan'l Harrow...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Phase | 3/25/1929 | See Source »

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