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Word: hume (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Legit." As to the legitimate stage, Mr. Fox has undoubtedly corralled a large number of its outstanding luminaries, including Actors Will Rogers, George Jessel, Clark and McCullough, Helen Chandler, and Authors Zoe Akins, Gilbert Emery, Cyril Hume, Owen Davis, George Middleton, Clare Kummer and many another. Prospective Fox talking features include Earl Derr Diggers' Behind That Curtain, Laurence Stallings' and Maxwell Anderson's The Cock-Eyed World, Jerome K. Jerome's The Passing of the Third Floor Back, and the first of an annual revue series called Fox Movietone Follies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures Apr. 8, 1929 | 4/8/1929 | See Source »

...Scepticism of David Hume", Professor Eaton, Emerson...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Student Vagabond | 3/30/1929 | See Source »

...David Hume's Scepticism", Professor Eaton, Emerson...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Student Vagabond | 3/25/1929 | See Source »

Cited by Laborite Ponsonby as an instance of "unofficial propaganda" is the deed of Miss Kate Hume of Dumfries, Scotland. In 1914 she forged and gave to the British press a purported letter from her sister, Miss Grace Hume, in which the latter was supposed to write that her right breast had been hacked off by Germans in Belgium. Since Miss Grace Hume had never been out of England and was sensitive about her breast, she denounced her sister, but not until the story had grown to national prominence...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: Ponsonby's Report | 1/21/1929 | See Source »

...above are jokes. They were printed in Life Jan. 4, the first issue under the editorship of Norman Hume Anthony (TIME, Jan. 7). They were apparently considered extraordinary jokes, for Editor Anthony reprinted them word for word in Life...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Stillman Panorama | 1/21/1929 | See Source »

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