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Word: safes (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Colman. What does the bored British officer with the poetic eyes and the little mustache do when the gang catches him? Does he fight his way out for the sake of the lovely girl whose uncle is held captive in a house where anything might happen? You are quite safe in feeling assured that in all circumstances such an officer will behave as gallantry prescribes. Best shot: the effect of the fall of a spoon in the dining room of the English Club...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures May 20, 1929 | 5/20/1929 | See Source »

...both diamonds and woman, gathers smoothly and almost originally, until the star embraces Mary Nolan in the mine office and Ernest Torrence is led off to jail. Best shot: Torrence lulling the suspicions of the mine employes when a steam-alarm goes off as he is robbing the safe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures May 20, 1929 | 5/20/1929 | See Source »

During the fifth and sixth frames. Molloy, who had assumed twirling duties, baffled the Villanova willow-wielders, but a series of safe blows in the seventh gave them what proved to be their winning run. The Harvard pitcher had matters well in hand from then on. The final stanza saw the spectacular Crimson rally fail narrowly...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HARVARD RALLY IN NINTH FALLS SHORT | 5/17/1929 | See Source »

...Note--The Crimson does not necessarily endorse opinions expressed in printed communications. No attention will be safe to anonymous letters and only under special conditions, at the request of the writer, will names be with-held...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: More Plans for the House | 5/15/1929 | See Source »

Albert Manger, 29, is 6 ft. 2 in. and shy. He has never lifted a piano, a horse, or a safe. In Baltimore he is a printer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Strong-Men | 5/13/1929 | See Source »

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