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Word: may (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Fellows is a farce which might be enjoyed in remote farming sections where boredom sometimes inspires families to exchange husbands and wives. That is the plot of Bed-Fellows. The switch is legally accomplished, but the play's title is, of course, never realized. Such things may happen but you cannot stage them. After much raucous effort at humor and suspense, Bed-Fellows ends where it began, without a single inventive fillip to distinguish it from a score of other mediocrities...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Jul. 15, 1929 | 7/15/1929 | See Source »

...Hungary, cinemaddicts learned that they would have no talking cinema before next May...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Radio into Talkies | 7/15/1929 | See Source »

...may find them everywhere...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Jul. 15, 1929 | 7/15/1929 | See Source »

...times' sake, and because such victories as were hers were more bitterly earned, Mrs. May Sutton Bundy more than Helen Wills was Wimbledon's idol last week. She, before the enthusiastic eyes of William Tatem Tilden II (who murmured, "It's too good to be true") and to the anguished exhortations of her nine-year-old daughter (the youngest of four), defeated England's hard-hitting Eileen Bennett 3-6, 6-4, 6-4. British newspapers reprinted oldtime photographs taken when Mrs. Bundy, then May Sutton, became Wimbledon's first U. S. champion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Wimbledon | 7/15/1929 | See Source »

This is the first, and one may hope worst, memoir of "the single individual who contributed most to the ending of the World War." If Foch was as Foch Speaks he was heroically inarticulate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Monsieur Foch | 7/15/1929 | See Source »

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