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Word: slit (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...lives in a "dandy little Italian-villa-style bungalow with two bathrooms . . . a slit in the wall for the disposal of safety razor blades . . . garbage incinerator . . . electric washing machine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FICTION: Mechanistic Ass | 4/23/1928 | See Source »

...steel rod in one hand and a broken bottle in the other. I brained the first man near me, slashed the throat of the second one with the broken bottle and laid about with the steel rod. My aim was good. I stretched the other two out and then slit their throats. . . . After that I did a dash for the underbrush. . . . By this time the rest of the bandits began shooting. . . . I never dared to stop for a single moment. . . . I had a pretty good idea of the country and I made for Cuernavaca. I got there...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MEXICO: Perfect Story | 1/23/1928 | See Source »

...West" and the current Metropolitan attraction, Richard Dix in "The Gay Defender". Be it remarked immediately that they did these things better with the help of Mary Pickford's husband. Certainly there are enough important Latins in Hollywood to keep Mr. Dix, the American of them all, out of slit Spanish trousers and Mexican fandangos. He is pre-eminently a home boy and should be discouraged in any more attempts to hit for Fairbanks. The film as casual amusement is pleasing enough. Thelma Todd is good to look upon and seems slightly more than beautiful. Additional fact of striking import...

Author: By H. B., | Title: DIX GOES SPANISH WITH THELMA TODD | 12/7/1927 | See Source »

...handling letters the Seal-ometer sealed, stamped and counted envelopes; Addressograph stencilled name & address on them; Bircher's Lightning letter opener slit them open...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: National Business Show | 10/31/1927 | See Source »

...been placed along the prison walls to prevent violence. Radio station WSOM in Manhattan was hooked up ready for the broadcasting of the execution by the Eugene V. Debs Memorial Radio Fund. In adjoining death cells Nicola Sacco, Bartolomeo Vanzetti and Celestino Madeiros? were waiting for a man to slit their trouser legs, make them ready for metal strips through which would pass a current of electricity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RADICALS: Respite | 8/22/1927 | See Source »

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