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Word: kill (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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People go to the cinema 1) to keep cool; 2) to be in the dark; 3) to kill time; 4) to be entertained...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Chart | 7/30/1928 | See Source »

...Horner!" roared the President, then leaped down six balcony steps, stunned Communist Horner with the impact of heavy boots, did not quite kill him, restored complete order...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Red Scots | 7/30/1928 | See Source »

...fascinating fable, moral and all. With three wedding presents-a silver ring, a goose feather pillow, and a little black slave for luckpenny-MacKnight rides over the hills from Ca'liny to claim proud Margery, his bride. This copper-haired beauty has eight brothers who kill the little black slave for her dance orgies with the Gobbler. Luckpenny dead, MacKnight and his delectable bride are pursued by an eery fate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: God and the Devil | 7/23/1928 | See Source »

...potent digestion resisted liquid poison, Rasputin was induced to eat several pastries containing cyanide of potassium. Expectantly the nobles waited for their victim to collapse, and blanched with fear as the Black Monk, who was believed to possess occult powers, became merely hilarious after absorbing enough poison to kill a healthy elephant...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: Debauchee's Daughter | 7/16/1928 | See Source »

...Killing. Powder-Horn Pete (Wallace Beery) and Dead-Eye Dan (Raymond Hatton) of the Ozark Mountains are hired by the Hicks family to kill all the Beagles. Thinking that the Beagles are four-legged animals, Pete and Dan slap thighs in joyful anticipation of easy slaughter. But the Beagles are a family of two-legged humans. The problem is finally solved without bloodshed when one little Beagle girl (Mary Brian) marries a Hicks boy. Here & there, a laugh ensues. . . . Paramount advertises the film as the last of the Beery-Hatton comedies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures Jul. 16, 1928 | 7/16/1928 | See Source »

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