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Word: insomnia (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Henry Kitchell Webster is one of the minority of U. S. mystery writers who tells a wild yarn so plainly and well you keep forgetting its improbabilities. Though Webster has written mystery stories without a single killing, if you take murders for insomnia The Man with the Scarred Hand should give you a night's repose...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Yarn, Well-Spun | 2/23/1931 | See Source »

...leading stag; Lincoln called home to supper by his children just as he is receiving the presidential nomination in his Springfield law-office; Lincoln telling his cabinet he is going to take Fort Sumter; Lincoln walking in the White House halls in his stocking feet because he has insomnia; a long line of telegraphers getting despatches from the fighting line; General Philip Henry Sheridan and his staff in their wild gallop to reorganize their broken army cutting, in a flash of steel and a streamer of dust, across the corner of a cornfield; the assassination...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures Sep. 8, 1930 | 9/8/1930 | See Source »

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