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Word: somes (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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Joseph M. Schenck, president of United Artists, anxious to improve his golf, engaged as private tutor Leo Diegel, famed professional, paying him some say $12,000 for six weeks.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Variations Jan. 21, 1929 | 1/21/1929 | See Source »

Street Scene. The Manhattan house is divided against itself. There are apartments on both sides of the hall, on every floor. The June day has been a scorcher ?"Hottest July fifteent' in fawty-one yizz. Yeah. Six dead in Chicago and no relief in sight, the paper says"?...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Jan. 21, 1929 | 1/21/1929 | See Source »

It is unlikely that John Daniel Hertz remembers going to Chicago at the age of five; long journeys, to children, are merely a blur. But certainly he has a distinct impression of the beating his father gave him, which amused him to run away from home at eleven. He solo...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Hertz Retires | 1/21/1929 | See Source »

Most people buy books to read. Literary people buy them to reread. Bibliophiles buy them to see, touch and to ponder their histories. Shrewd men buy them to sell. More and more potent becomes the last-named reason. The shy bibliophile who has picked up some musty, stained bibelot in...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Book Business | 1/21/1929 | See Source »

Great traveler that he was, Theodore Roosevelt's world-wanderings have been rivaled, perhaps eclipsed, by those of his widow. Since his death, on Jan. 6, 1919, Mrs. Roosevelt has traveled some 115,372 miles, as follows:

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Jan. 21, 1929 | 1/21/1929 | See Source »

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