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Word: l (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...came from the magazine TIME, but it made no difference. Mother said I should write to you for the sake of my grade, hoping you could give me more information on the matter to convince my teacher. If you could I will appreciate it very much. MARIAN L. SHIELDS...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: May 20, 1929 | 5/20/1929 | See Source »

...Hoover last week drove her Packard to Richmond, Va., and back (225 mi.) to inspect an exhibit of portraits of early Virginians. Her guests were three - Mrs. Vernon L. Kellogg, Mrs. H. S. Cummings and Mrs. Harlan Fiske Stone. A chauffeur rode idly in her car, a body guard trailed in another...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Set for the Summer | 5/20/1929 | See Source »

Congressman M. Alfred Michaelson comes from Chicago. In the House, he votes Dry. Last week he was prisoner-at-the-bar in the squat, red-brick U. S. District Court at Key West, Fla. Judge Halstead L. Ritter peered curiously at Conggressman Michaelson through large, judicial spectacles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PROHIBITION: A Dear Friend | 5/20/1929 | See Source »

After breakfast he was fingerprinted, given No. 10,520 and assigned to the jail pharmacy by Superintendent William L. Peake. Thirty years ago in Kansas, before he shot his foot and got the insurance money that started him in the oil game, Harry Ford Sinclair was a registered pharmacist. Now he was given a white coat and set to rolling quinine pills for sick convicts, of which there were seven in the jail last week...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CORRUPTION: No. 10,520 | 5/20/1929 | See Source »

Eddie Cantor, 37, famed comedian, whose antics in Whoopee pay him $5,000 weekly, declared last week he would leave the stage after the present season, retire to his farm in Great Neck, L. I. "After my five daughters went to bed one night," said he, "my wife, my doctor and I held a conference. . . . We decided that Eddie should go in for being a country gentleman...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: may 20, 1929 | 5/20/1929 | See Source »

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