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Word: perhapses (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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Perhaps the niceties of the profession are to be found nowhere to better advantage than in the function of timekeeper. Too frequent calling of the hour has a tendency to create unfortunate emotional situations in the examinees and a mere announcement as the period draws to a close that "this...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: NOTHING TOO MUCH | 6/5/1929 | See Source »

The difficulty in finding anyone who can explain the hidden symbolism of the paintings prevents perhaps any indefensible comment upon the emotional result of careful attention to these decorations. The fact, however, that the recumbent figure in the left hand picture wears a helmet strikingly like that of a German...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BACK TO THE WALL | 6/4/1929 | See Source »

There is a pallid beauty in many of these passages, and the songs which interrupt the action and contain the best poetry have other effective bits. But they are not enough to disguise the fact that the whole tenor of the piece is that of an almost unhealthy shrinking from...

Author: By R. L. W. jr., | Title: Poetry and Criticism | 6/4/1929 | See Source »

A Dangerous Woman (Paramount). When Adolph Zukor, president of Paramount Famous Lasky Corp., noticed the original title of this picture, The Woman Who Needed Killing, he called in advertising spreads which had cost a lot of money and renamed it himself. That any woman should need killing seemed to him...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures Jun. 3, 1929 | 6/3/1929 | See Source »

It is little short of astonishing that a man belonging to a profession usually considered to represent the sternest of realism should have fallen for the vagaries of the "right crowd". Perhaps the boys at Technology have not had time to frequent the polished dance halls of Back Bay and...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MUMMERS AND MEN | 6/3/1929 | See Source »

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