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Word: foils (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...months earlier. At the time of her friend's perplexity, however, all Tokyo's department stores, tired of having patrons jump off their roofs, had hired vigilant guards and fenced their cornices with barbed wire. Today every high building in Tokyo is thus equipped to foil the desperate. Miss Tomito wracked her brain, then had an inspiration. "Dearest!" she cried, "if you cannot bear the perplexities of maturing womanhood I can take you to just the volcano...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JAPAN: Suicide Point | 1/28/1935 | See Source »

...that he really were Judge Priest. Anita Louise is a Greuse-like decoration and as usual has no real part to show whether she can act or not. Tom Brown is young and enthusiastic. Berton Churchill has an irritating charm and ebullience all his own and is a perfect foil for the rugged honesty of the Priest famille...

Author: By S. M. B., | Title: CRIMSON PLAYGOER | 12/7/1934 | See Source »

...other feature is "Happiness Ahead," or Dick Powell again and always the same. He has a new she as a rapt listener to his crooning, Josephine Hutchinson. While hardly beautiful, she gives promise of future fame as something more than a foil to crooners. McHugh and Jenkins again, and those two catchy tunes "Pop Goes Your Heart" and "happiness Ahead...

Author: By P. A. U., | Title: The Crimson Playgoer | 12/3/1934 | See Source »

...good censors do not object to a certain amount of sugared iniquity, providing it takes place in an apartment of the proper opulence, and also providing that apartment be situated in Parts. After all, with so many Frenchmen around, one must expect that sort of thing. Placed as foil to Grant's sophistication is the doddering Edward Everett Horton...

Author: By W. L. W., | Title: The Crimson Playgoer | 10/5/1934 | See Source »

John G. Hurd, '34, Captain of the University's blade-wielders last year, and winner of the championship for foil-men at the Intercollegiate Fencing meet at the end of last season, will be unable to fight tonight...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fencers Meet Italian Champs | 10/4/1934 | See Source »

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