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Word: offs (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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Seemingly considering that he had done a good week's work in obtaining the lukewarm informal acquiescence of 27 nations. Prime Minister Briand presently left Geneva, returned to Paris, received the formal assent of his Cabinet to what he had done. Then he went off to his farm at Concherel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE LEAGUE OF NATIONS: Little Cornerstone | 9/23/1929 | See Source »

Such was the first inkling that Sir Malcolm might have roughed out in recent months a reciprocal trade agreement between Britain and Argentina which awaited only final negotiation by Viscount d'Abernon and his confirmation in behalf of the Imperial Government. At Buenos Aires the Jockey Club banquet was followed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Trade Embassy | 9/23/1929 | See Source »

A more imaginative man might have killed himself. A more unscrupulous man might have sailed for South America or Africa. A more logical man might have surrendered to the nearest representative of the law. But Charles Delos Waggoner, quixotic President of the Bank of Telluride, Col. adopted none of these...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Banker Found | 9/23/1929 | See Source »

Flight (Columbia). Daredevil marines at the airbase at Pensacola, Fla., and perfect synchronization of dialog and martial sounds make this a very exciting picture. The illusion of reality is strong when the theatre reverberates with roaring airplanes, staccato machine guns. Ralph Graves is a vacillating, blundering flyer who girds up...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures Sep. 23, 1929 | 9/23/1929 | See Source »

The Great Gabbo (Sono-Art) As a ventriloquist in silk stockings and a dinner shirt, Erich von Stroheim keeps his round, bristle-covered head unbowed under bludgeonings written for him by Ben Hecht. He is in love with the girl who helps him in his act. Off stage he cannot...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures Sep. 23, 1929 | 9/23/1929 | See Source »

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