Word: seconds
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...York Public Library developed clay feet last week. It holds a second mortgage on property occupied by the Melody Club, Manhattan joy parlor, often afflicted with Prohibition trouble. As holder of the mortgage, the library is co-defendant in a padlock action brought by the U. S. Government...
...called the Detroit Daily Illustrated (7 p. m. to 9 a. m. edition). The color scheme: white, then green, then pink. Its proprietor is Bernarr Macfadden, publisher of two other gum-chewers' sheetlets, New York's Graphic, Philadelphia's Daily News. This is the second new Macfadden publication venture within the last month. His other one: New York Investment News (TIME. April...
Keeping Mr. Young in Paris until the last minute was another consummation devoutly to be wished, the formal signing of the German Reparations Agreement and adjournment of the Second Dawes Committee...
...Herald Tribune, purveyor of false pomp and true drollery, who scored .616. Walter Winchell, Broadway slangman and gossiper, until last week of the tabloid Graphic (see p. 18) scored .790. He was just below dignified, grammatical J. Brooks Atkinson of the Times (.798) who, in turn, ran second to the winner, baldish, bespectacled Robert Littell of the Evening Post (.809).* Prognosticating a play's financial luck has but little to do with that synthesis of taste, dogma and analysis which is dramatic criticism. It is a question of audience psychology, of knowing what will make the playgoing mass guffaw...
Political observers last week analyzed the origins of Britain's second Labor (Socialist) Cabinet, They discovered...