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Word: olds (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...resolution adopted to reduce the tenure of service of Methodist Bishops from life to four years. Cried Mr. Anthony: "The church occasionally elects a misfit as a Bishop. Without mentioning any names I'll say we have one now. If he isn't a straight out old-fashioned gambler, I wouldn't know one if I met him on the road labeled with box car letters...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Raskobism | 11/18/1929 | See Source »

...will assume that whatever 'small deed of arms' as the knights of old used to call it, stands to the credit of each one of you, you committed-perpetrated-it from the motives of self preservation or because you happened to notice that someone on the staff was watching and admiring...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Most Enviable Order | 11/18/1929 | See Source »

...long journey through the years and, like him, perceives that the veils of Time are thin. She is unwilling to see him suffer in an age ill-adapted to his experience, so back he goes to his own century to fondle Helen's memento, still preserved in the old house, and to ponder her epitaph while his 20th Century fiancee leaves him, both of them disconsolate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Nov. 18, 1929 | 11/18/1929 | See Source »

...Donald Meek, managing to strike new and sensitive attitudes as an old and exhausted character, who gives the play its frequent quality of high comedy. A Scotsman from Glasgow, he has acted since the age of eight, has appeared in such diverse company as that of the late great Henry Irving and the late great Adam Forepaugh's Circus. He served with a Pennsylvania regiment in the Spanish War, with Canadian troops in the World War. His Broadway engagements have included Going Up, Little Old New York, The Hottentot, Six-Cylinder Love, Jonesy. Broken Dishes gives him his 878th role...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Nov. 18, 1929 | 11/18/1929 | See Source »

Make Me Know It. This is a melodrama acted by Negroes, all of them with natural vigor, some with skill. But vigor and skill alike are purposeless in a banal, disorganized play which depends for impetus on such lines as these: "But I am too old to marry you." "Daddy, you have pep and life enough for me?make me know it." The gentleman thus addressed is "Bulge" Bannon, black ward boss of Harlem, who, after attempting to use his seductive adopted daughter as a political tool, finds himself in love with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Nov. 18, 1929 | 11/18/1929 | See Source »

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