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Word: matings (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...owned by one William J. Burgess. So potent was the dose, that Hi-Point Monoplane died a day or so later, to the rage, sorrow, and financial loss of his owner. Someone else fixed a beady and covetous eye on Warily Gang Leader, champion wire-haired fox terrier, kennel mate and spouse to parexcellent Talavera Margaret. While the dog was being shown by her owner, this individual crept to the box wherein Warily Gang Leader was chained, before which a sentry should have been posted. Presumably, then, he put Warily Gang Leader warily under his coat, deposited...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Putting on the Dog | 2/27/1928 | See Source »

...warmed over Swedish production, Gosta Ekman* as woebegone clown Joe Higgins, supplies an erratic but generally satisfying performance. The Haunted Ship is a mere ghost of famed Jack London's story, White and Yellow. A sea captain, detecting an amorous alliance between his wife and his first-mate, sets the former adrift in a boat and imprisons the latter in the hold of his ship. For 15 years the midnight ocean is made hideous by the howls and whinings of the imprisoned first-mate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures Feb. 13, 1928 | 2/13/1928 | See Source »

...captain's own son is the vehicle of fate's revenge-a revenge in which the cruel captain and his caged mate are burned up together in the hold of the haunted ship...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures Feb. 13, 1928 | 2/13/1928 | See Source »

Jesse Holman Jones, wealthy "angel" of the Democratic convention at Houston, was suggested as a ticket-mate for Alfred Emanuel Smith. Wits in Kansas said a Smith-Jones ticket "would enlist the support of the country's two largest families." Colyumist George Rothwell Brown of the Washington Post wrote: "If Jones of Texas is nominated . . . with Smith, we advise the Republican party to draft Mr. Cohen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Boomlets | 2/6/1928 | See Source »

...explosion's results: Four of the Langley's men badly injured and a dead man (Chief Carpenter's Mate James Raynor Ailsworth) identifiable only by his Masonic ring; a ragged split in the Langley's plane-landing top deck...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Off San Diego | 1/2/1928 | See Source »

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