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Word: gwen (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Gerald Rufus Isaacs, Viscount Erleigh, only son and heir of the Marquess of Reading. His second daughter, Angela Mary, married (1922) Sir Neville Pearson, English newspaper proprietor and publisher. The only son of this Mond branch, Henry, chairman of the Mondson Chemical Co., married a Transvaal girl, Amy Gwen Wilson...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: New Antiseptic | 11/14/1927 | See Source »

...interest while spinning, swerving, dodging planes grew into confused monotony against a background of unpicturesque ether. Adam and Evil. Lew Cody plays both Adam Trevelyan and Adam's twin brother, Allan. Adam has wealth and a wife (Aileen Pringle); Allan is possessed of liabilities and a gold digger (Gwen Lee). The two women cannot tell the brothers apart, so one woman's husband becomes another woman's prey. Meanwhile Adam's wife, termed by the subtitle writer "his spare rib," almost floats to the wrong bosom...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: New Pictures: Aug. 22, 1927 | 8/22/1927 | See Source »

...fails slowly. As he lies grimly cheerful in bed, completely absorbed in the fate of his body, it is less and less upon his public fame, more and more upon his dead wife and Delphine that his side-thoughts turn. Delphine commits suicide, victim of melancholy. Her young sister, Gwen, arrives to lament, to accuse. She stays to love Sam's son, Geoffrey. Sam passes his crisis but relapses. Deserted by Delphine, he utters his wife's name as his jaw drops...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FICTION: Boys at Whitehall | 10/25/1926 | See Source »

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