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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Borrowed Love. Heroine Nina Leeds of Playwright Eugene O'Neill's famed Strange Interlude sees her weakling husband tortured by fears of his own sterility, knows him to be the possible heir of a family lunatic strain. Partly to restore his happiness, partly out of love for her...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Jul. 1, 1929 | 7/1/1929 | See Source »

No regular Italian, as he boasts, Rico was born in Youngstown, Ohio. He drank only milk. He gave diamonds for wear not to his women but to himself. Small and pale, he was a man bound to rise because he conducted his business with only his own future in constant...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: U. S. Gangster | 7/1/1929 | See Source »

When Rico was feted by the gang, Joe failed to appear. Joe was the svelte "inside man" of the roadhouse job. Now he had acquired a woman, money, a professional dancing job. He wanted to forget Rico, go straight. Rico believed that to go straight was to go soft, maybe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: U. S. Gangster | 7/1/1929 | See Source »

Stephenam Victor Joseph Noel Otto alias Otto Debeney, 29, jokester, took his own life in his native city of Brussels, last week, by leaping from the third story window of a dingy lodging house. Gallant and daring his spirit, fecund his imagination. In 1919, after deserting from the Belgian Army...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Jul. 1, 1929 | 7/1/1929 | See Source »

Fleischmann Co. makes nearly all the compressed yeast sold in the U. S. Its eleven factories have a capacity of some 500.000 lbs. of yeast per day. In 1928, net sales were $64,004,366; net income $19,820,668. Fleischmann Co. is also one of the world's largest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Morgan Mergers | 7/1/1929 | See Source »

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