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Word: nones (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...University's latest admirer is none other than Miss Olivia "Skeeter" Mathews, of Dedham. Formerly prominent in society, she began to be bored with its "petty functions," and turned to aviation as a diversion. Before long she had become so absorbed in it that even dances lost their pristine appeal...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FLYER FLAPPER FLAYS FOPS WHO HAIL FROM HARVARD | 3/25/1929 | See Source »

...Grundy's lips were sealed as if to part them would loose only sobs of heartbreak, but Mr. Grundy's friends predicted that he would "go along" with the Hoover Administration on limited tariff revision. For after all, some tariff boosting is better than none...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Mr. Grundy Goes Along | 3/25/1929 | See Source »

Harvard's team tonight will be composed of A. L. Raffa ocC. J. E. Willard '30, and H. A. Wolff '29. None of these men appeared in Thursday's contest, but each has spoken previously this year. As a whole, this group is considered one of the University's strongest...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: UNIVERSITY DEBATERS OPPOSE CARLETON TEAM THIS EVENING | 3/23/1929 | See Source »

...Letter (Paramount). None of the cinema's long succession of women testifying in their own defense has told as convincingly as Jeanne Eagels how she fired the shot that saved her virtue. None has begun her testimony with a more positive knowledge of her guilt fixed in the minds of the audience, which has seen her a minute before, transformed with fury, committing the actual murder. Rather an effective contralto phonograph record than a moving picture, the film follows the construction of Somerset Maugham's short story, a successful legitimate play last year, about the temptations of white...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures Mar. 18, 1929 | 3/18/1929 | See Source »

...have-my blessing." His Holiness had just received official congratulations from the diplomats upon the resumption of temporal power by the Holy See (TIME, Feb. 18). These expressions of official courtesy were thus long delayed because of the reluctance of many governments to offer them at all. None were forthcoming from Japan, Russia, Sweden, Denmark, Norway or The Netherlands. And the French Ambassador Caron de Beaumarchais, who offered the congratulations of his government several weeks ago without authority received a wigging last week from French Foreign Minister Aristide Briand, reputedly an atheist...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PAPAL STATE: Wigging | 3/18/1929 | See Source »

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