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Word: leaded (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...cracking comedy My Girl Friday, was mistakenly encouraged by its profits to display this naïve anecdote of innocence in Westchester County. In it romance is made difficult for a youth of the aristocracy and a peasant virgin; difficult also for Fiske O'Hara, who plays the lead and tries to ingratiate his audience by chatting and singing to them in an entr'acte...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Aug. 26, 1929 | 8/26/1929 | See Source »

...Mischievous Norse Fire-God of a shape transformable at will. Thor, God of War and Thunder, chained him up when he grew too obstreperous. But Loki will come again to lead forth the hosts of Hel at Twilight of the Gods...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Protean Gnome | 8/26/1929 | See Source »

...final race of a German-U. S. series off Marblehead, Mass., aboard the U. S. entry Oriole, Designer Paine pulled ropes, gave advice, helped 18-year-old Elizabeth Hovey to win. Futile was the victory, however, for the German yachts had piled up a lead in four earlier races, captured the President Hoover cup (sponsored, not donated, by the President, who, no yachtsman, hears about yacht doings from Secretary of Navy Adams...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Yachts | 8/26/1929 | See Source »

...further mark of leniency, both judges suspended sentence on Hudson Clarke Jr. on his promise to lead "an honorable life" and try to support his crippled father, and the wives and families of the others, who are left destitute. He walked from the court, free, with $1.27, to start life over again...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Simple Men | 8/19/1929 | See Source »

...been booming along in the stock market at prices up to 292, which is 23 times earnings. The hopefulness of the speculators has not been based on expected revenue from telephone conversations with Buenos Aires. The point is that A. T. & T. is in a position to take the lead in any major telephone merger that may develop, and every time A. T. & T. and I. T. & T. do something together a great dream is revived...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Great Dream | 8/19/1929 | See Source »

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