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Word: fourteenth (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Fanny Brice, who is among the natural phenomena of the forthcoming Music Box Revue. In the same Box are Robert Benchley and the ridiculous Clark and McCullough. In Dutch is the Gallagher and Shean trademark. Leon Errol will fall on his face as Louis in Louis, the Fourteenth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: Loudest and Funniest | 10/20/1924 | See Source »

...setting of the play is historical; the action is in Spain in the fourteenth century and centers around Peter the Cruel of Castile, who is a leading character in the play...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: DRAMATIC CLUB TO BREAK PRECEDENT | 10/15/1924 | See Source »

...When the fourteenth amendment is attacked in New Orleans upon the ground that a "person of African blood and descent . . . is inherently incapable of becoming a citizen of the United States", it is not to be supposed that come digger-up of dead issues is engineering a senseless assault upon impregnable principles. The fourteenth amendment gave the negro political equality with the white man, but far from settling the race problem, it simply ended one stage of its development and inaugurated another...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE REAL ISSUE | 10/7/1924 | See Source »

...Broadway was ready for him. Metaphorically, welcoming arches were thrown across the Great White Way from Fourteenth Street to Columbus Circle; and he accepted the welcome...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Morons' Delight | 4/21/1924 | See Source »

...Second.................. 39 7 38 Third............ 41 7 39 Fourth ............ 41 7 39 Fifth........... 39 7 39 Sixth............ 41 7 39 Seventh.............. 40 3 40 Eighth............. 39 2 41 Ninth............ 40 2 41 Tenth.............. 43 6*-† Eleventh.......... 41 l*-† Twelfth................ 39 11† Thirteenth............. 39 12†38 Fourteenth............... 38 12† 38 voting nearly ended at the eighth ballot. Brookhart, Frazier, Howell, Ladd, Norris, Republican insurgents, voted consistently for La Follette (who was ill and not present). With them voted the Farmor-Laborites, Shipstead and Magnus Johnson. On the seventh ballot all the insurgent group except Howell, Ladd...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: The Eighth Ballot | 12/24/1923 | See Source »

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