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Word: janet (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...pile by patience and "guts." But it was Gambler Ned Beaumont's brains that helped him out of many a tough spot. Beaumont did not like the idea of Madvig's supporting aristocratic Senator Henry, thought still less of Madvig's sparking the Senator's daughter Janet. When the Senator's son was found murdered, suspicion soon fell on Madvig, but strangely enough failed to wreck the political alliance between the boss and the aristocrat. Ned Beaumont was used to fishy doings. He said little to anybody, but he went after the murderer on his own. That was nearly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Outline of Art | 4/27/1931 | See Source »

...Jimmy's Janet. To the harried Mayor's support last week went his wife, Janet Allen Walker, plump, double-chinned & fun-loving. Unlike Alfred Emanuel Smith and his Katie, Jimmy Walker and his Janet are not inseparable companions and mates. Nevertheless, at her Miami Beach, Fla. home where she has been since December, Mrs. Walker made known that she was going back to New York? though she wasn't sure exactly when?"to stand by Jim and our guns...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Scandals of New York (Cont'd) | 4/20/1931 | See Source »

...Berlin?The Hunchback & The Dancer, The Janus' Head, Nosferatu. In 1925 he surprised the world with The Last Laugh, about a doorman in a big hotel, by many considered the best silent cinema ever filmed. A year later he made Faust, then went to Hollywood where he directed Janet Gaynor in Sunrise and Four Devils...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Mar. 30, 1931 | 3/30/1931 | See Source »

Charles Farrel and Janet Gaynor, the smile and simper team, have been recalled from a temporary limbo in order to be featured at the University in "The Man Who Came Back." Of course he had to go before he could return, so his rich, proud father had him shanghaied to Shanghai because he couldn't keep night clubs, blondes, and the bottle out of little Stevie's reach. Once there Stevie took a look at all that that quaint city had to offer in the way of gestures, and finally met up with his lost love who was occupying...

Author: By B. O.c., | Title: The Crimson Playgoer | 3/13/1931 | See Source »

When the War was over Janet brought what was left of Carl back to England and was happy to be his attendant. John had married a Canadian nurse and gone with her to Canada; he had never forgiven his father...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Tragedy of a Preacher* | 3/2/1931 | See Source »

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