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Word: leveler (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...both the players and spectators. However, no dug-outs will be constructed this year for several reasons. Primarily the construction of dug-outs requires digging several feet into the ground, and the land of Soldiers Field will not permit this because it is nearly as low as sea level...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: RUMOR OF DUG-OUTS GRACING BASEBALL DIAMOND SPIKED | 4/9/1927 | See Source »

...DARK GENTLEMAN-G. B. Stern-Knopf ($2.50). Setting her eye about at the level of the kennel doors at the Casa Lucceola, which is near San Remo on the Riviera, Author Stern relates with considerable finesse certain events that took place there in March, a fortnight or so before the feast of St. Sirius, the Dogstar. . . -. Pekoe and Baloo, the haughty chows from down the hill, were oddly enough the first to wind anything. They told Golden Toes that his mother, Rennie, was looking beautiful and young Toes, sociable no end, repeated the remark at home. Kim, the lean Irish...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Fiction: Apr. 4, 1927 | 4/4/1927 | See Source »

...foreign action which will sweep every Westerner from the country if any act of war like the proposed bombardment of Cantonese positions is committed. No justification for such an, act now exists nor is it likely to exist in the future if the American government and its representatives keep level-headed...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CHINOISERIE | 3/26/1927 | See Source »

Affrighted, Mrs. Baldwin clung to the Premier's arm. Imperturable, he looked at the crowd with level eyes, silently sucked at and puffed his famed pipe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Brutal Facts'' | 3/14/1927 | See Source »

...theatre. Thus, in Loud Speaker, the candidate for governor of the State may be discovered mulling over his radio speech in one corner of the stage, while his memory of an Atlantic City bathing beauty may be enacted in another corner. His daughter may black-bottom on an upper level and his wife receive a weird, bearded, hypnotic lover on still another. By proper punctuation and emphasis, such a production may be made colorful, clear, rapid, nervous, like jazz music. But, though the new playwrights deserve credit for the enterprise, Mr. Lawson's "farce" fails to enthrall the observer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Mar. 14, 1927 | 3/14/1927 | See Source »

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