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Word: nones (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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When Captain Carey failed, none of his officers took charge. "The officers of this ship do not seem to measure up to the standard that we would expect in a British ship." And from the whole disaster Inspector Hoover stated there was one great lesson to be learned. Mechanically, nothing went wrong. Humanly, almost everything went wrong. "We must hereafter stress men more than things...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CATASTROPHE: Wake of the Vestris | 12/24/1928 | See Source »

...dapper gentlemen, none was more inspired and self-confident than Arnold Rothstein, a sleek Jew inclining to flesh in his late forties. Hotel managers fawned on him, because he owned a hotel himself. Newspaper editors disliked to call him "gambler" when he got into the news. The New York World used to euphemize and call him an "operator," knowing well that many another citizen gambled as often though perhaps not so daringly as Rothstein. He won a few hundred "grand" on this year's World's Series-a contest which he was said to have "fixed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: In Room 349 | 12/24/1928 | See Source »

Every "reorganization" intelligent was M.P. knew that "merger" or this a move to threaten British motor makers; but simply an attempt by Mr. Ford to enhance the appeal of his "Made in England" motor cars by admitting insular Britons to a share in Ford profits. None the less petulant M.P.'s raised a rumpus...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Parliament's Week: Dec. 24, 1928 | 12/24/1928 | See Source »

...pointing their sad morals, the authors have found it unnecessary to call any women to their aid; there are none in the cast and Helen Westley, the charming war-horse of the Theatre Guild, is therefore not called upon to add Wings Over Europe to Major Barbara and Strange Interlude, her present assignments. The male actors are uniformly as good as Guild casts should be, acting the preposterous caricatures of the Cabinet members. Alexander Kirkland is Lightfoot, the worker of wonders...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Dec. 24, 1928 | 12/24/1928 | See Source »

...years as managing director of the National Retail Dry Goods Association gave Lew Hahn intimate knowledge of department stores, plus "reputation," of which he had almost none when he began wrapping up shoes in Andrew Alexander's shop...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Hahn, Inc. | 12/24/1928 | See Source »

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