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Word: peeled (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...which lynchings are founded in the South, and although it represented a Yankee peddler as a thief, it stirred a Northern audience so deeply that the tournament management had to keep the curtain down to make them go home. The cast consisted of Julia Hogan, Louise Bond, Joe Peel and Louis Quince (who appropriately played a sour countryman...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: Texas Players | 5/19/1924 | See Source »

...inevitable backwoods beauty (Alma Rubens). When she is ashamed to be seen in the best circles with him because of her underbreeding, the wily villain sends the innocent girl to Paris for culture. This situation can be straightened out only when Hero and Villain, again in the north woods, peel off 14 overcoats and fight. Men. This is all woman, for it Is all Pola Negri. It is her best picture to date, although it does follow beaten trails through Montmartre. She plays with all the matchless glow of her temperament the role of a young woman who hates...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures May 12, 1924 | 5/12/1924 | See Source »

When the reporter asked Mr. Warner if he had any excitement on his trip, he replied, "Why, the most thrilling adventure I can imagine is to peel off plaster and paint from the wall of a shrine and find these fascinating paintings behind. Of course, most of them mean little to me; an expedition like this would have to have had scholars in every field of science and language, in order to appreciate each 'find" at its true value...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FINDS BUDDHIST ART IN WILDS OF CHINA | 5/8/1924 | See Source »

When the reporter asked Mr. Warner if he had any excitement on his trip, he replied, "Why, the most thrilling adventure I can imagine is to peel off plaster and paint from the wall of a shrine and find these fascinating paintings behind. Of course, most of them mean little to me; an expedition like this would have to have had scholars in every field of science and language, in order to appreciate each 'find" at its true value...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ONE INNING SPOILS ROBINSON'S RECORD | 5/8/1924 | See Source »

When the reporter asked Mr. Warner if he had any excitement on his trip, he replied, "Why, the most thrilling adventure I can imagine is to peel off plaster and paint from the wall of a shrine and find these fascinating paintings behind. Of course, most of them mean little to me; an expedition like this would have to have had scholars in every field of science and language, in order to appreciate each 'find" at its true value...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: WORCESTER SCHOOLBOYS TROUNCE SCRUBS 6-1 | 5/8/1924 | See Source »

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