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Word: night (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...taxi-drivers to talk so I can understand them, have the newspapers print something about America- especially business news-get some shows and nightclubs running that can compare with Broadway (and stop that annoying "club" system that makes it so hard to have a good time except in roughneck night places). When these things are attended to (!) I may go again. LESTER PENNIMAN...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Apr. 29, 1929 | 4/29/1929 | See Source »

...boat's bow. Some 200 bullets whined through the dark. These random shots did not stop the runaway but they: 1) startled Mrs. Robert V. Latham, sitting up in bed aboard her husband's houseboat, one shot missing her by six inches; 2) "fanned" George D. Broughman, night watchman along the river; 3) penetrated the "parlors" of Undertaker John Gautier; 4) lodged in two houses on Miami's Flagler St.; 5) aroused hundreds of Miami sleepers; 7) stirred Miami's City Commission to consider a formal protest to Washington...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PROHIBITION: Bedevilment | 4/29/1929 | See Source »

...when a group of Chicago admirers bought her a ticket to Montreal where she won $1,000 in a beauty contest. Later, in the cast of George White's Scandals, she began to sing songs sitting, droop-lipped, on a piano; then in Americana, then in her own night club, she climbed from the piano-top to success. When Miami persuaded Universal to hold the film premiere of Show Boat in its town instead of Palm Beach last month, Helen Morgan went by plane from Manhattan to climb upon the inevitable piano, stimulated by the applause of many notables...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures Apr. 29, 1929 | 4/29/1929 | See Source »

...read Mr. Harmon's letter because he considered that it contained a valuable suggestion. In brief, Airman Harmon's plan is to equip the League of Nations with a volunteer army of aviators, and each aviator with a bombing plane, ready at command to blow the night lights out of the capital of any nation which started...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE LEAGUE OF NATIONS: Bad Faith! | 4/29/1929 | See Source »

...late hour last night it was learned that the negative team won at New Haven on the same question...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FRESHMAN ORATORS DOWN TIGERS IN H-Y-P CONTEST | 4/27/1929 | See Source »

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