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Word: howelis (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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¶ The President made clear that his Prohibition Investigating Commission is to consider how best to enforce the law, not whether it should be repealed. He said in answer to press questioners: "It [the Commission] is intended to cover the entire question of law enforcement and organization of justice." The...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: The Honor of a Call | 3/18/1929 | See Source »

The Letter (Paramount). None of the cinema's long succession of women testifying in their own defense has told as convincingly as Jeanne Eagels how she fired the shot that saved her virtue. None has begun her testimony with a more positive knowledge of her guilt fixed in the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures Mar. 18, 1929 | 3/18/1929 | See Source »

In his wisdom Producer Winthrop Ames picked Frieda Inescort. a young lady who, though she began her career in The Truth About Blayds (1922), is still well and honestly within her 20's. Discerning spectators along the "road" soon realized how lucky they were to see a Portia who was...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: Youngest Portia | 3/18/1929 | See Source »

Over the mantelpiece in the Officers' Club, there hangs a photograph showing several of its War-veteran members standing with their flag before the Empire's most sacred military shrine?the Cenotaph in Whitehall. Proudly erect and tall beside the flag bearer stands Captain Barker, wearing seven decorations, including the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Transvestite | 3/18/1929 | See Source »

To the great and furious war god after whom their land is named, Mexicans again paid costly homage last week?by flying at each others' throats. There is no surer way of pleasing God Mexitl (see map). Exalted in that one of the 13 heavens which is his own?the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MEXICO: Again, Mexitl | 3/18/1929 | See Source »

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