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Word: seene (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...into the cellhouse windows as the priest went to the building's very entrance and laid the charge to blast an entrance. The ignition battery did not work. Father O'Neil returned for another heavy load of dynamite, ran in, laid it, ran back. Danny Daniels was seen at the cellhouse window trying to shoot the priest just before the explosion shattered all remaining windows in the neighborhood, blew men's hats off and buried the cellhouse in a heavy pall of smoke. A company of militia charged in, expecting to find a great breach...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Danny Daniels' Party | 10/14/1929 | See Source »

...only had she seen Atlantic City but she had visited a baby clinic in Harlem...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Ishbel | 10/14/1929 | See Source »

...chief of the sacred treasures of Japan is the mirror which contains the spirit of the Sun Goddess Amaterasu, ancestress of H. I. M. The Emperor of Japan. Of such superlative sanctity is Amaterasu's mirror that for centuries no human eye has ever actually seen it. Rumored to be a round plate of polished metal, it rests in an elaborate tabernacle, shrouded in a cover of white brocade. When the brocade wears out a new cover is slipped over the old-no priest would dare peek...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JAPAN: Moving Day | 10/14/1929 | See Source »

...that their play avoids pathos is the fact that the old man does not die in the last act. Having convinced his fastidious, fortunate descendants that all the family, including Antonon, who is a truck-gardener and Gabriella, who has borne an illegitimate child, should attend his party, having seen his own joy permeate and weld the lot, his last wish is gratified by the budding passion of his great-grandchildren Trino and Currita, which allows him to hope that he will live to fondle his first great-great-grandchild...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Oct. 14, 1929 | 10/14/1929 | See Source »

...Have you seen the foliage in the Vermont maple woods this year...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Student Vagabond | 10/7/1929 | See Source »

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