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Word: paradee (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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Seven years ago the smart and sprightly Russian Bat flapped over U. S. cities with tempestuous and most merited éclat. As each number was introduced by the droll, Cheshire-cat-faced Nikita Balieff, an ticipant audiences rocked with a foretaste of merriment which always followed. The music of the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Feb. 4, 1929 | 2/4/1929 | See Source »

The arising gong sounds at 6 a. m. The parade to the open sewer to dump the slop buckets begins at 6:30. Then breakfast, and the working day from 8 to 4, with an hour off for lunch. From 4 to bedtime, the convict has his fun-baseball, gabbing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Sing Sing | 1/7/1929 | See Source »

Born Borach, daughter of a French Jew who ran saloons in Newark, Brooklyn and Manhattan, Fannie Brice was romantic partly because she was homely and awkward. When she got a job in a department store she pretended she was starving and her father was blind; when the girls and the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures Dec. 31, 1928 | 12/31/1928 | See Source »

Two chorines, whether because they were shy, or because they wanted publicity, or because they were not awarded jobs, raged at this requirement. They caused the New York Daily News to print their pictures with stories damning Earl Carroll, quoting George White, "Ziggy" and such showmen as being shocked by...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: Briefs | 12/24/1928 | See Source »

Behind the German Lines. Diagrams are usually dull, including those which patriots and students kept during the War, marking on maps with little pins the lines of the combatants. It was hard to remember which pins stood for which side or what the irregular graph of a strategy meant in...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures Dec. 17, 1928 | 12/17/1928 | See Source »

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