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Word: nice (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...June 18, 1926, Mr. Prettyman, night foreman for a contracting company, rescued Anna Nice from drowning in the Alleghany River, was himself drowned. The Workmen's Compensation Board awarded his widow $8 a week for 300 weeks. To court went the Casualty Co. Ruled Judge Mc-Vicar...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: No Life saver | 5/16/1927 | See Source »

...Special social events are prepared in Rouen, Amiens, Lille, Ypres, Brussels, Nancy, Strasbourg, Basle, Geneva, Grenoble, Nice, Avignon, and Paris. Owing to the voluntary participation of Europeans and the private hospitality extended, an exceptionally low cost covers the twelve weeks' trip...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: EUROPEAN HOSPITALITY AWAITS "HARVARD TOUR" | 5/11/1927 | See Source »

Secrets of the Soul. (Werner Kraus, Ruth Weyler). Another must be added to the triumphs of Ufa, German film creators. It is a dramatic picturization of the knife couple, of one of those who sit at the knee of Herr Freud. Why does nice Mr. Hero want to slit his wife's throat? Follow the dream and find out. Many a Freudian symbol will probably elude the spectator while a scrupulously scientific fantasy of the less definitely conscious mind is revealed on the screen. But the tense climax, the amazing photography cannot escape notice or fail of effect. When...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: New Pictures: May 9, 1927 | 5/9/1927 | See Source »

Died. Gaston Leroux, famed writer of detective stories; at Nice, France. The Mystery of the Yellow Room and The Phantom of the Opera were cinematized. The Phantom featured Lon Chaney...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Apr. 25, 1927 | 4/25/1927 | See Source »

...white civilization. Meeting upper-level Negroes of Washington, D. C., Mr. Hughes found them critical of Jean Toomer, Rudolph Fisher and Zora Hurston, Negro novelists, of many another Negro author who has written realistic, often tragic narratives of the Negro masses. "Why doesn't Jean Toomer write about nice people?" asked the Washingtonians. Why didn't Rudolph Fisher's City of Refuge* deal with "decent folks"? And they objected to Negro Artist Winold Reiss's drawings of Negroes because he "made his colored people look so colored." Of the whole radical school of young Negro authors they said, pityingly, disapprovingly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEGROES: Class Conflict | 4/18/1927 | See Source »

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