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Word: silver (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Philadelphia the silver-haired statesman warmly wrung the hand of Quakerdom's distinguished S. Solis Cohen, the physician who saved his life in Philadelphia two years ago. In gratitude the Prime Minister stopped over for three hours, facetiously recalled to august lunchers at the Bellevue-Stratford how "Philadelphians used to come in with long faces and look at me over the foot of the bed and reveal in their countenances how long I had to live...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: Blazing to Peace | 10/21/1929 | See Source »

Last week came the Silver Jubilee (25 years) of the Fox Theatres, announced by lavish two-page newspaper advertisements that told of gala performances, mysteriously adding: "Far more important than even the entertainment, will be a message from William Fox of vital concern to the future welfare of every patron of Fox theatres...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Fox Jubilee | 10/21/1929 | See Source »

...years Bebe Daniels has done everything that any scenario required her to do. In the old Pathe comedies she used to get plastered with dough, tossed in blankets, dumped into ponds out of laundry baskets. Before that she took child roles with Selig. From Pathe she graduated to wearing silver wigs in Cecil B. De Mille's period pictures. Lately, in her 40th to 49th pictures inclusive, she has been uniformily a slightly madcap but inherently sensible heroine whose activities whether in college (The Campus Flirt), a newspaper office (Hot News), a bathing suit (Swim, Girl, Swim, The Palm...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures Oct. 21, 1929 | 10/21/1929 | See Source »

...thorough review of what's doing across the footlights and on the silver sceen in Boston and environs...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FEATURES OF TOMORROW'S 12-PAGE ISSUE | 10/18/1929 | See Source »

...Unless she is borne to the dinner [for James Ramsay MacDonald at the White House] triumphant on the shoulders of Mrs. Nick Longworth and seated in the center of the table as a centerpiece with a silver candelabra in both hands and fed her soup with a long handled spoon by the wife of the Secretary of State, Kansas won't be responsible for what her presidential electors do in 1932. Verbum...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Verbum Sap | 10/14/1929 | See Source »

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