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Word: mercer (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Newcomerstown, Ohio, one Jack Russell conducted himself disorderly. Mayor Marion Mercer fined him $10 and costs. Then the Mayor said that Jack Russell could have his money back if he would rid Newcomerstown of ten of its "hundreds" of disorderly dogs. Grinning gladly, Jack Russell went down the street and began killing dogs. Dog-owners of Newcomerstown, irate, said that Mayor Mercer had been more disorderly than Jack Russell or the dogs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Disorderly | 5/28/1928 | See Source »

...that her son had been killed in the World War while saving the life of Hugh Bradleigh, whose ancestors came over on the Mayflower. Then follows the logical cementing of the romance of Daughter Beth Levine and Hugh Bradleigh, happily avoiding the Jewish-Irish hookup. As Ma Levine, Beryl Mercer gave a grand performance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures Apr. 9, 1928 | 4/9/1928 | See Source »

...Sharon, Pa., Feb. 14.-Entering a crowded room at Mine No. 5 school between Mercer and Grove City, at 2 p.m. today, Mrs. Jack McCall, aged 30, wife of a coal miner, pulled a butcher knife from beneath her long coat and drew it across the throat of her 7-year-old son, Lawrence, severing the boy's jugular vein and causing his death in a few moments...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: In the Pink | 2/27/1928 | See Source »

...South, Georgia showed no mercy against Mercer, 26-7; Vanderbilt made merry with Maryland, 39-20; Georgia Tech joggled Oglethorpe, 19-7. Georgia, unbeaten, seems obviously the sectional champion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Football Matches: Nov. 28, 1927 | 11/28/1927 | See Source »

...village gossips to decide who is crazy. There is no one crazy but someone's else thinking makes him so. The truth? What is truth? etc. etc. Two-thirds of it are lively entertainment, unless you think otherwise. Helen Westley does another of her cadaverous crones. Beryl Mercer, Edward G. Robinson and Laura Hope Crews are apt metaphors...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: New Plays: Mar. 7, 1927 | 3/7/1927 | See Source »

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