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Word: stairway (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...hard to collect, to reveal a perfect spawn of loves and murders. Three rooms give on the sitting-room of this squalid pension, each of which by itself is a cell of drama. Many more embryo plots sneak in through the front door, the back door, down the stairway, or just happen in the alleyway outside. They tangle themselves into a swarm of ugly, writhing life, sticky and sordid, grimy with bitter wisecracks and cruelly shot through with flashes of vagrant, tender beauty...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: New Plays in Manhattan: Sep. 19, 1927 | 9/19/1927 | See Source »

...same way he should be taught to slide from step to step down the stairway, backward and face downward, and given many careful lessons in climbing upstairs, too, putting a knee up first at each step...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Baby Safety | 5/9/1927 | See Source »

Stimulated to historical introspection by the curiosity of nations that are, comparatively, mere children, Egypt is jealously digging herself up these days, under European leadership. Last week, led by Digger Cecil Firth, archaeologists of the Antiquities Department of the Egyptian government climbed up a stairway of 100 steps out of the rocky bowels of their land...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Tomb | 4/11/1927 | See Source »

...flagstaff there. Before the door of the white marble mansion, President Coolidge stood with his white collie, Rob Roy, posed for photographers, followed the dog over the threshold into his new home. Through the huge foyer he walked, past the costly Gobelin tapestry at his left, up the marble stairway lined with heads of mountain goats, lions, elk and caribou. Into the large room next to the library that is to be his workshop he stepped, paused, smiled at friendly objects: his desk, his favorite chair, many of his books, all brought carefully from the White House. Here...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: The Coolidge Week: Mar. 14, 1927 | 3/14/1927 | See Source »

...nothing of the audience but open eyes and attentive years, and the other which makes the audience meet it half-way," stated Andre Charlot, well known as the originator and producer of Charlot's Revues, to an interviewer who was still puffing after the arduous climb up the spiral stairway which twists from the floor back stage up toward the mase of curtains and back drops to the dressing rooms of the New Park Theatre...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Andre Charlot Prefers Smiling to Laughing Audience--Finds Automobile Manufacturers Unappreciative of His Revue | 3/10/1927 | See Source »

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