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Word: girls (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...sound picture, made as an experiment by the Philadelphia Police Department, of a murderer, one William E. Peters, confessing his crime. With a tired, unshaven face and worn, disordered clothes pulled and stretched by fierce handling in the patrol wagon, Peters told slowly about going to his girl's home, following her upstairs, quarreling with her, shooting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Newsreel Theatre | 11/18/1929 | See Source »

...father made a good living running the ladies bargain store in Circleville, Ohio. Young Lewis went over to Chillicothe in the street car every night to play in the high school band. Of Hebrew descent, he joined the Episcopal church to sing in the choir next to a girl he liked. He was discharged from Henry Goldsmith's music store in Columbus because whenever he tried out a clarinet for a customer people thought he had gone crazy. He kept running away from store jobs to work in bands but was usually sent home because he could not play...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Newsreel Theatre | 11/18/1929 | See Source »

...cities the device is to be used only until all the community's telephones are changed to mechanical dialed ones. But for long distance use the machines are to be used until something even more efficient can be devised to help out the girl operators...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Talking Phone Dials | 11/18/1929 | See Source »

...Malmesbury, South Africa, a white girl gave birth to six boys. Three died shortly after birth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Nov. 18, 1929 | 11/18/1929 | See Source »

These are typical Arlen tales: A young would-be man-about-town finds himself the protector, against his inclinations, of a fascinating girl's honor. A fascinating girl fascinates three young men who are all agog to be fascinated. A fascinating older woman fascinates an older man and then leaves him, fascinatingly, for his good. A fascinating but somewhat irregular lady of doubtful age fascinates a young man, re-fascinates one of her old beaux, who steps in to rescue the fascinated young man?...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Mencken's Huneker | 11/18/1929 | See Source »

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