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Word: shots (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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Thus racing away, his lips uncomfortably sealed, Senator James Eli Watson, Republican Leader, was overtaken in the corridor by a newsgatherer who panted his question: "Say. Senator?is everything? in the bill?going up?" Leader Watson, unable to resist temptation longer, shot back as he hurried on: "No, not everything. Some things are coming down? but not many...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE TARIFF: Not Many | 8/5/1929 | See Source »

Seven hundred sea miles in 24 hours-for 22 years the Mauretania has been shooting at that goal. Her best shot was a 676, made in 1911 on a record crossing from Cherbourg to Manhattan. Last week the Bremen, on her first day out from Cherbourg sped 687 miles for a new world's one-day record. As she nosed into Manhattan plump Captain Leopold Ziegen-bein snapped his stopwatch and beamingly announced that the Bremen's time from Cherbourg to Ambrose Light had been 4 days, 17 hours, 42 minutes. The Maure-tania's best record...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: Bremen Uber Alles | 7/29/1929 | See Source »

...Clara Bow gets the kiss in the fadeout. She is a better actress than her usual It-girl role would lead you to expect, but in most of her scenes she is not trying to act so much as to suggest, rather over-consciously, how "cute" she is. Best shot: Kay Francis in front of a bedroom door...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures Jul. 29, 1929 | 7/29/1929 | See Source »

...Netherlands is in love with the leader of the oppressed Flemings. The photography might be 20 years old and so might the sword fights, the kisses in jail, the pursuit on horseback, the Inquisition, the pardon delivered at the scaffold by the king's messenger. Only good shot: Raquel Meller crossing herself in bed when her dog, startled by a flash of lightning, begins to bark...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures Jul. 29, 1929 | 7/29/1929 | See Source »

Marshal. "Accidentally" shot by the host whose wife he has seduced, an actor reveals the attempted jealousy murder. The wife, to save the husband, denies her love though her actor is apparently dying...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Hungary's Molnar | 7/22/1929 | See Source »

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