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Word: plazas (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...looks as though the well made narrative novel is breaking up," said Thornton Wilder in an interview with a CRIMSON reporter yesterday. Mr. Wilder lectured last night at the Copley Plaza...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Thornton Wilder Sees Development of Narrative Novel Into New Form-Calls Style "By-Product of Personality" | 3/19/1929 | See Source »

Money is a sine qua non of the research which birth-control leaders have under way. Last fortnight Mrs. Sanger gathered 500 well-to-do and persuaded New Yorkers in a ballroom of the Hotel Plaza. To stimulate donations to support

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Birth Control | 3/18/1929 | See Source »

Boris, already at the Capitol, knew when The Chief arrived by the yell that arose from the plaza. Mr. Coolidge went up the broad steps of the Senate wing at a quick, almost jaunty, pace. The Chief was slower, measured his stride more carefully. Once inside Mr. Coolidge walked around to the President's room, just off the Senate lobby, put his silk hat down on the green felt table top, sat down in an arm chair, signed many bills. His Cabinet stood about him, eager to be of last-minute assistance. When he had finished he motioned shut...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: The Chief | 3/11/1929 | See Source »

...first annual Military Ball will be held by the units of the University at the Copley-Plaza Hotel this evening, beginning promptly at 9:30 o'clock. Rear Admiral and Mrs. W. S. Sims will head the receiving line...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Military Ball Held Tonight | 3/8/1929 | See Source »

...married one Anna Beth Sully, daughter and heir of a soapmaker who stipulated that Fairbanks must superintend his boiling grease-vats. Six months later Fairbanks returned to the stage, was divorced in 1918, married Mary Pickford in 1920. Once, locked out of his room in the Plaza Hotel, Manhattan, he climbed up the face of the building. In Hollywood he is called "Doug," his wife Miss Pickford. Social leaders, they dance only with each other. She looks after the family accounts. After making his first picture, The Lamb, for the old Triangle company for $2,000 a week, he developed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures Mar. 4, 1929 | 3/4/1929 | See Source »

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