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Word: hell (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...head, then jumps back in again. No one catches him. Antics drive the farce out of the ridiculous into the absurd. The odd things about it are: 1) It was written by Hatcher Hughes, who is a professor of Columbia University and the author of a Pulitzer prize play, Hell Bent fer Heaven; 2) The cast acted, directed, produced the piece, after the original sponsor had given it up as hopeless...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: Road Companies | 3/28/1927 | See Source »

Sensation Seekers (Billie Dove). This plot is from Ernest Pascal's Egypt. Billie Dove as Egypt Hagen, society type girl, smokes, drinks and goes bad with six times the diligence of any possible society girl, determined to go to hell just as fast as she can get there. Reverend Norman Lodge (Raymond Bloomer) sidetracks her into his parish house. Preacher Lodge is convincing and that is all which can be said for the picture...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: New Pictures: Mar. 28, 1927 | 3/28/1927 | See Source »

...Tonopah they took some heavy, dirty bags out of their car and locked them up. That evening they walked around the town, which is one big mining camp, showing chunks of glittering rock to the oldtimers. The chunks glittered so brightly and looked so rich that the oldtimers said: "Hell, that ain't gold!" The boys went to bed dubious...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GOLD: Weepah | 3/21/1927 | See Source »

Speaking from stout Saxon roots to Kansas Cityites, last week, M. Claudel said: "The Grand Canyon which I have just visited, is indeed a Hell of a hole, the most beautiful I've ever seen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Beautiful Hole | 3/21/1927 | See Source »

Since the death twenty one years ago of John Lovett, "The Orange Man," whose greeting to Freshmen, "I knew your father, friend," and whose translation of Veritas as "Ter hell wid Yale," have made him immortal, Harvard has never had another mascot of such rare interest and popularity...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: John the Orangeman Catered Expertly to Collegiate Palates in Elegant Eighties--Was Colourful Mascot to Crimson Nines | 3/19/1927 | See Source »

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