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Word: night (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...never sets on the British empire, then there is seldom a time when it is not shining down on a cricket game. Last week, when London was in darkness and the old, sick king stirred in the night at Buckingham Palace, the most important cricket of the year was being played in Melbourne, Australia. This was the third match in the series played yearly between a team of picked Britishers and a team of picked Australians for the "ashes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Cricket | 1/14/1929 | See Source »

...from the slipper of Actress Pauline Markham, who had a "voice of velvet and the lost arms of Venus of Milo." He tried to drive a coach-and-four through the doorway of a Paris house, putting himself in the hospital for a month. Several times, in dead of night, he raced along the boulevards?stark naked in the driver...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Father & Son | 1/14/1929 | See Source »

...What a Night. Bebe Daniels, who in the course of her career has made 52 full-length cinemas, includes in her routine one more plot with its main set in a newspaper office and most of its laughs in Herman Manckiewsz's subtitles. Best shot: Bebe Daniels trying not to sneeze...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures Jan. 14, 1929 | 1/14/1929 | See Source »

...this unlikely story of War heroes after the War, one a German Baron, the other an amateur bandit fast becoming professional, is happily without dialog. There is some good dancing by the doublers for Swagger and his girl who are supposed to be Russian entertainers in a high-grade night club...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures Jan. 14, 1929 | 1/14/1929 | See Source »

Running up a winning lead in the last five minutes of play, the M. I. T. basketball team turned back the University quintet by a 29 to 23 score on Saturday night. This defeat, the first for the Crimson five this season, marked the first Tech victory over Harvard in five years...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FAST FINISH CARRIES M.I.T. FIVE TO VICTORY | 1/14/1929 | See Source »

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