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Word: may (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...May I be TIME'S first perpetual subscriber? Or if not the very first, then at least a charter member of the Perpetual Subscriptions' Club? Herewith is my check for $60 in full payment for a perpetual subscription...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Jul. 1, 1929 | 7/1/1929 | See Source »

...large that it may be some years before I feel like coughing up. I would feel more like it if TIME could undertake to refund part of the money in case of need...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Jul. 1, 1929 | 7/1/1929 | See Source »

...rumored transaction was interpreted as an alliance between U. S. Industrial Alcohol and du Pont, though the du Pont part in the proceedings appeared entirely passive. It is said that the alcohol company has developed a new cellulose acetate process which may be used in the making of du Pont rayon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: U. S. Industrial & du Pont | 6/24/1929 | See Source »

Ethel Barrymore, according to last week's announcement by Producer Lee Shubert, will act in blackface next season. The play: a dramatization of Julia Peterkin's 1928 Pulitzer Prize novel Scarlet Sister Mary (TIME, May 27). The role: a South Carolina Negro prostitute...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Jun. 24, 1929 | 6/24/1929 | See Source »

...orchestration is part of the film, so that the "emoting" of cinema's musical accompaniments is more exactly timed and appropriate than ever. Now that the talkies have come, more than 35,000 musicians who used to play in theatres are out of their jobs (TIME, May 27 et seq.). The orchestra of Loew's big New York Theatre, for example, was dismissed last fortnight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Difference | 6/24/1929 | See Source »

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