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Word: philipe (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...particularly evident in the second act. The details are revealing, little turns of character are brought out with subtlety and grace, but it is in the larger strokes, the rhythms and counter-rhythms, the transitions from one scene to another, that one feels an ineptitude that, but for Philip Moclier's unobtrusive direction, and the high standard of the acting, would make the play much less effective than...

Author: By R. L. W., | Title: CRIMSON PLAYGOER | 12/13/1929 | See Source »

...Booming, bumbling Tom Shaw, one-time weaver, now War Minister, made the Parliamentary bloomer of the week. Trespassing on the fiscal preserves of Chancellor of the Exchequer Philip Snowden without Cabinet authority, and possibly without knowing what he was doing. Right Honorable Tom blandly remarked that holders of British War Bonds are receiving too high a rate of interest: "They are getting $500,000,000 a year to which they have not the slightest moral right! . . . That is a fact that has got to be faced before this country can be put on its feet again...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BRITISH EMPIRE: Parliament's Week: Dec. 9, 1929 | 12/9/1929 | See Source »

Mahomet is described as an Arabian Lion, roaring, like the Lions of Wichita, Kan., in behalf of municipal improvements rather than God. The conquests of Alexander sprang from his original necessity to surpass the celebrity of his father, Philip of Macedon. Napoleon III was "a great adventurer; a beautiful addition to our collection." Catiline captained all the gangs in Rome in the enterprise, not of rebuilding his personal fortune, but of leveling all fortunes, murdering all governors, burning a city. He perished "not ingloriously," in "the adventure of death." Because the intelligence of Bolitho is very nearly equal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Bolithographs | 12/9/1929 | See Source »

...Henry Philip Minis, of Savannah, Georgia...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: WARD AND TICKNOR NAME 51 NOMINEES FOR CLASS OFFICES | 12/6/1929 | See Source »

...Philip Freneau", Professor Murdock, Harvard...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Student Vagabond | 11/25/1929 | See Source »

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