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Word: joans (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...convict her. The Duke Steps Out (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer). Nonsense about a young student in a California co-educational university who wins the world's light-heavyweight fisticuffing championship and the girl he loves, is made pleasant and almost credible by the acting of William Haines and by Joan Crawford's handsome legs. Best shot: the crowd at the ringside the night Duke beats Frisco...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures Apr. 29, 1929 | 4/29/1929 | See Source »

Best current pictures listed (A) according to. merit (B) according to the money they made last week: (A) The Passion of Joan of Arc-Silent French version of history's greatest courtroom scene. The Divine Lady-Love among the frigates. The Spieler-Original story of carnival life. Wild Orchids- Greta Garbo in a bedroom for three. Strong Boy-Promotions of a baggage-smasher. (B) The Wild Party ($42,300, Buffalo, Buffalo) ; Wolf. Song ($34,000, Paramount, Los Angeles); Noah's Ark ($20,000, Aldine, Philadelphia); Weary River ($7,900, Des Moines, Des Moines...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Citations | 4/22/1929 | See Source »

...kittens clinging with their claws to her firm flesh. What started last week's uproar was the discovery of the Minnie A. Caine, lying placidly at anchor in Oakland Harbor, Calif. She has been there for the past two years. Fact-finders were able to show that Joan Lowell and her father had been aboard the Minnie A. Caine about 15 months instead of 16 years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: CRADLE ROCKED | 4/15/1929 | See Source »

...sunny congress on a California hilltop at the western terminus of the Lincoln Highway, overlooking the burnished haze of San Francisco. There stands California's memorial to her War dead, the Palace of the Legion of Honor, an edifice filled with many treasures, including the life of Joan of Arc in Gobelin tapestries, gift of France...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: SCULPTURE GALORE | 4/15/1929 | See Source »

...Passion of Joan of Arc- Unforgettable French Reproduction of the trial and death of a saint...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CITATIONS | 4/15/1929 | See Source »

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