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Word: namee (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...with pink cheeks and big ears cringed before nine women who snarled at him, at bay in a Bronx (New York City) police station last week. His name was Edward Koch and he had faked all nine out of jewelry or cash by merely telling them that he was a doctor come to their apartments to give them a physical examination. Like Mrs. Jean Sagerman (TIME, Oct. 24) all had submitted and been robbed while taking baths by his orders...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Villain Caught | 10/31/1927 | See Source »

...that temple last week went 25,000 Mormons, led by their President Heber J. Grant, to dedicate it to the Church of Latter Day Saints, formal name of the Mormon denomination...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: 25,000 Mormons | 10/31/1927 | See Source »

...handling letters the Seal-ometer sealed, stamped and counted envelopes; Addressograph stencilled name & address on them; Bircher's Lightning letter opener slit them open...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: National Business Show | 10/31/1927 | See Source »

...summer Charles Albert Levine looped luridly about Europe. Such were his squabbles, such his eccentricities that jokes flourished around his name. Some termed him "publicity seeker;" some, "crank." Many wondered why he did not cease blinking brashly in the limelight and return home...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AERONAUTICS: Levine's New Model | 10/31/1927 | See Source »

...26th Annual International Exhibition of Paintings, now in its second week at the Pittsburgh Carnegie Institute (TIME, Oct. 24), talked to one another about an old Scotsman. John Kane, housepainter of Pittsburgh, was known to some of the townspeople whose houses he had painted; critics had never heard his name. Some of the townspeople who remembered his long, bony face, his big, brown, scaly hands, remembered also hearing that when John Kane had finished with swabbing clapboard or pillar, he would go home and paint pictures in his bedroom. The critics, who saw his "Scene from the Scottish Highlands" hung...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: International Exhibition | 10/31/1927 | See Source »

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