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Word: life (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...lionized. He will intrigue to his heart's content and no one will say him may until he has lived here for a while. Then he will decide that there is no reason why he should go back to Rumania after all, and settle down to a comfortable life of lionization...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: KING CAROL | 5/9/1928 | See Source »

...Life readers, pleased, anticipated further diversions in the reorganized Life which is to appear...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Life Laughs | 5/7/1928 | See Source »

...boast is not entirely unjustified by the acid sorrow of this play which examines the interval in a man's life between his failure in love and his suicide. Drinking with a shifty little crony, talking to a good-natured whore, working with meticulous figures in a bank-all the activities of living assume for him the shrill, bloodcurdling futility of the little drumming dance he plays, from time to time, on the high notes of a piano...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: May 7, 1928 | 5/7/1928 | See Source »

...point in the film, Miss Davies gives imitations of Mae Murray, Lillian Gish, Pola Negri, which make her a candidate for Ail-American funnywoman. In private life, she has been known to do an hilarious Charles S. Chaplin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures May 7, 1928 | 5/7/1928 | See Source »

...tape-red ribbons as Alice calls it. A very cross examination is interrupted by more news: PRIZE BEAUTY SLAYS LOVE MATE WITH ICE PICK AFTER JAZZ PARTY IN RICH NEST, and Alice's trial is over. Alice is advised to go into vaudeville, or write her Life Story, on the strength of her recent publicity, but she goes to W7ash-ington instead, and comes very near making hystery...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Fiction: May 7, 1928 | 5/7/1928 | See Source »

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