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Word: savely (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Line. He is new on the Manhattan route. Until last week he had been engaged in taking poor Italians to South America, bringing rich Argentines to Europe. Commodore Taraboth is lithe, slender, quick, with pointed mustachios fascinating to Signoras. He did all he could, all anyone could, to save Miss Moore...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: Top Deck Pool | 9/10/1928 | See Source »

...resumed his stance, swung his iron, lifted the ball toward the green, which was encircled by the gallery. None saw where the ball lighted, save that it plopped somewhere among the spectators. Everyone looked at everyone else. One spectator felt in his pocket, found the ball, in embarrassment dropped it on good ground. Not inexcusably Von Elm lost the hole, but won the match with Dr. (not dental) William Tweddell...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Golf: Sep. 10, 1928 | 9/10/1928 | See Source »

...news, save Oilman Teagle's tut-tutting telegram, emerged from the Achnacarry woods, presumably full of roving officials. But anonymous "authorities" were not averse to revealing the true nature of the shooting party. This was explained variously...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: All Three of Us | 8/27/1928 | See Source »

...Perfect Crime. "The greatest detective in the world" (Clive Brook) retires because criminals are so stupid. He will show them how; he commits "the perfect crime," a murder without a single clew. But finally, he is forced to confess in order to save the life of an innocent man. It is a thoroughly insipid film. To critical audiences, the crime was by no means perfect. The acting of Clive Brook and Irene Rich was exasperating. The "talkie" parts were atrocious, partly faked...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures Aug. 20, 1928 | 8/20/1928 | See Source »

...Ellis' scientific knowledge nor the depth of his philosophy of beauty as reflected in his Affirmations, Sex in Relation to Society, Little Essays of Love and Virtue, Impressions and Comments. Nineteen-year-old Ellis, distressed by his own patchy understanding of the complicated sex impulse, vowed he would save other youth from similar distress, and devoted his life to elucidation. With this end always in mind, his studies ranged from ten years' medical practice to wide reading of philosophy, history, and fiction, recorded in his six volumes of annotated quotations-Taine, Swinburne, Flaubert, Strauss, Voltaire, Boccaccio, Whitman...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Modern Aesthete | 8/20/1928 | See Source »

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