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Word: lating (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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Opposed to these loud Occidentals who fill the theatre with the smell of gunpowder are a batch of Orientals who rattle slates, employ green strangling cords, talk occasionally like old Southern gentlemen. Douglass R. Dumbrille, late of The Three Musketeers, is an inimitable O'Neill...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Jun. 3, 1929 | 6/3/1929 | See Source »

Grand Duke Cyril's suspicions of internal trouble in Russia were proved with startling effect by a late despatch from Moscow. By order of the Stalin government, three former imperial and Kerensky officials, recently high Soviet railway and mining officials, were sentenced to be shot dead for obstructing Communist operation of railways and of the gold and platinum industry-in other words, for "counter-revolutionary plotting for the restoration of Capitalism." Condemned were: N. K. von Meck, onetime chairman of the privately owned Moscow-Kazan Railway; A. F. Velitchko, head of the transport department of the Imperial Staff during...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Plotters Shot | 6/3/1929 | See Source »

Died. Archibald Philip Primrose, Fifth Earl of Rosebery, 82, of Durdans, Epsom, England; at Durdans. His 17-year-old boasts were: he would marry an heiress, win the Derby, become Prime Minister of England. He accomplished all three: married Hannah, eldest daughter of late great Baron Meyer de Rothschild; won the Derby thrice; was Liberal Prime Minister...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Jun. 3, 1929 | 6/3/1929 | See Source »

...mission is the one woman on it, Miss Ada Louise Comstock, stately, broad-minded president of Radcliffe College. As a political independent, she has kept her Prohibition views strictly to herself. Soon after her appointment she was asked, of course, if she was related to the late great Reformer Anthony Comstock. She replied: "There is no traceable connection." Her legal credo is this: "I believe in as few rules as possible and a rigid enforcement of the rules that do exist...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: The Great Commission | 6/3/1929 | See Source »

...inaccuracies and duplications in the Crimson notice column of late, no notices will henceforth be accepted unless written on the blanks provided for that purpose in the news room of the Crimson Building near the notice...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: NOTICE | 5/29/1929 | See Source »

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