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Word: looke (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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Where might be the-last-place-in-the-world that prohibition agents would look for a moonshine still? One such place might be the clump of trees in the field behind the barn on the farm belonging to Dry Crusader William Eugene ("pussyfoot") Johnson near Smithville Flats, N. Y. So thought some shrewd person. Last week, in the clump of trees in the field behind the barn of Crusader Johnson-who visits his farm only in the summer-State troopers found vats, stoves, coils and 14 copper boilers to contain 200 gallons...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: While Cat's Away | 12/12/1927 | See Source »

...wonderful that every other man you meet after you have seen him seems flat and dull!" Artist Christy, fired by his wife to enthusiasm, cried: "Mussolini is perfect. ... He let us do anything we wanted-anything. ... I could go in for a sitting feeling pretty low. One look at him and I was filled with enthusiasm. He radiates power, and you catch some of it from him!" Calm, Artist Christy announced that he would at once put on view at his apartment (No. 1 West 67th St., Manhattan) not only his new portrait of Mussolini but another depicting Crown Prince...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: Mussolini Praised | 12/12/1927 | See Source »

...keep Mr. Dix, the American of them all, out of slit Spanish trousers and Mexican fandangos. He is pre-eminently a home boy and should be discouraged in any more attempts to hit for Fairbanks. The film as casual amusement is pleasing enough. Thelma Todd is good to look upon and seems slightly more than beautiful. Additional fact of striking import,--she hails from Lawrence, Mass! The John Murray Anderson show heads the divertissement which has shown a pronounced bigger and better pre-Christmas tendency of late...

Author: By H. B., | Title: DIX GOES SPANISH WITH THELMA TODD | 12/7/1927 | See Source »

...Holmes, "the Bolsheviki saved the Revolution. This, in the eyes of many people, is the one great crime of the Bolsheviki, but if it were not for them, the Czar and all his train would have returned and a White Terror would have resulted to make the Red Terror look like a kindergarten game. There would have been a civil war against the peasants to regain land innumerable pogroms against the Jews, and the worst tyranny in modern history would have been restored. For what the Bolsheviki did all posterity will thank them...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: NEW YORK MINISTER EXTOLS BOLSHEVIKI | 12/6/1927 | See Source »

...Armstrong, Whitworth & Co.) has suffered. Last year and the year before Armstrong, Whitworth had heavy losses. Vickers's earnings have been so poor that the company two years ago reduced its capital from $128,420,000 to $88,396,287, in order to make its dividend rate look respectable...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: British Iron & Steel | 12/5/1927 | See Source »

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