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Word: hells (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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Captain Stayton paraphrased an imaginary income-taxpayer's reasoning: "'I want to get rid of these taxes. If the average man wants to drink beer and pay taxes on it, why, hell...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Wet Plans | 12/12/1927 | See Source »

...returns. Ambition proves the stronger, and he asks Henri to live under an assumed name, that the hero legend may survive and that he, Bachelet, may remain a minister of France. Henri accepts the situation France. Henri accepts the situation with the bitter resolve that having returned from the hell of war into a world of swine, he will himself fight and grasp and be a greater swine than all of them. It is a strong play, conviucingly acted, and it has the unpleasantness that is often the companion of truth...

Author: By R. N. G., | Title: CRIMSON PLAYGOER | 12/10/1927 | See Source »

...Milka said, she "fought like hell," until a mounted mine guard rode her down, seized her by the hand, dragged her along, broke her wrist. After that she only addressed mass meetings. One day she went to Trinidad Jail to see some of the I. W. W. organizers and the sheriff gave her a cell...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Wobbling | 12/5/1927 | See Source »

...Farrar herself has taken turns in the cinema, won much praise for her Carmen, Maria Rosa, The Woman God Forgot, The Devil's Stone, The Turn of the Wheel, The Hell Cat, Shadows, The Stronger Vow, Joan the Woman, and The Riddle Woman...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Again, Farrar | 12/5/1927 | See Source »

...What the hell this IS about...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE CRIME | 12/3/1927 | See Source »

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