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Word: funerall (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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While the city sleeps, the cops play pinochle in the assembly room and gangsters croak a jeweler on East 37th Street, Manhattan. On the trail of "Mile-Away" Healey, undertaker, suspected murderer, gang-leader, move the swollen feet of Detective Chancy. His face, which successfully suggests the face of an...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures Oct. 29, 1928 | 10/29/1928 | See Source »

Temperamentally, too, the father is more present in his younger son. Brother Phil is the artist, Brother Bob the scientist, of politico-social activity. Both are intense, but in Brother Phil the intensity is more apparent. He is less facile at repartee, which Young Bob turns off almost automatically. When...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: In LaFollette-Land | 10/22/1928 | See Source »

In the monotonous scientific pursuits of Microbe Hunters Paul de Kruif found sensationalism enough to titivate a large public-he demonstrated fascination in the perverse antics of microbes, drama in the stolid heroism of hunters. More of the same, Hunger Fighters is a trustworthy though ebullient account of certain other...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Sugar-Coated Science | 10/8/1928 | See Source »

First of Pullman cars to be given a name was the "Pioneer," built in 1865 for Abraham Lincoln's funeral train.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Scotched Legend | 9/17/1928 | See Source »

Died. Rabbi Leon Harrison, 62, of Temple Israel, St. Louis, Mo., famed leader of American Jewry, who, at the age of 21, delivered an oration at the funeral services of Henry Ward Beecher; by falling before a subway train; in Manhattan. Rabbi Harrison's vertigo and poor eyesight may...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Sep. 10, 1928 | 9/10/1928 | See Source »

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