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Word: gowning (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...acrobat does next welds it into drama. Its drawbacks are Buddy Rogers' continuous ingenuousness, occasional flat lines, overacting by the "bit" characters, and the fact that its central situation is frankly appropriated from the great German film Variety. A good shot: pretty, wiry Jean Arthur in a silk afternoon gown doing a stunt on the trapeze...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures Dec. 23, 1929 | 12/23/1929 | See Source »

...Playwright Henri Clerc, Mayor of Aix. Though the Aga Khan is so holy that spoonfuls of his bathwater are peddled among the faithful, he owns one of the finest racing stables in Europe, plays roulette, shoots craps. In delicate compliment to her husband, Mlle. Carron wore a wedding gown of her husband's racing colors (emerald & chocolate) banded with weasel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Dec. 16, 1929 | 12/16/1929 | See Source »

...stormy, pretty vixen with just a shadow of pout left to remind you that she was once called "America's Sweetheart." Lucky children will be taken by wise parents to see this Taming of the Shrew during Christmas holidays. Best shot: the marriage scene of Katherine in her fine gown and Petruchio who comes late to church, in Fool's motley, eating an apple...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures Dec. 9, 1929 | 12/9/1929 | See Source »

...part in The Heart of Wetona. Working for him during the next twelve years she spent much of her time putting walnut stain on those portions of her person not covered by beads, grass, buckskin or the negroid type of evening gown. She gets up at noon and eats two meals a day with lemons between meals for the sake of her throat. She was good in Tiger Rose, Lulu Belle, The Sun-Daughter, Kiki, The Harem, and Mima. This is her first picture...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures Nov. 4, 1929 | 11/4/1929 | See Source »

...have been his pupils as most of the important teachers of other branches of medicine have been theirs. Well nigh impossible it is to review the many accomplishments of Dr. Welch, to echo the gusto with which he still teaches. Suffice to report that in his doctorate cap and gown he resembles King Henry VIII in jolly mood, that he organized Johns Hopkins School of Hygiene and Public Health (1918), and now its Department of the History of Medicine and its Medical Library. As last week he walked with the applauding throng of notables,* through the library building, past...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: At Johns Hopkins | 10/28/1929 | See Source »

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