Search Details

Word: star (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

...lack of a reliable guide book was met last Fall through publication by the Honolulu Star-Bulletin of a very complete tourist guide titled All About Hawaii, very amply illustrated with photographs, maps and tables, carrying also historic and contemporary facts and statistics...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Aug. 19, 1929 | 8/19/1929 | See Source »

Vanitie v. Resolute. Outboards, dinghies, canoes and purring launches teemed among a great flock of sleek sailing ships in Morris Cove, Conn. (New Haven) as the New York Yacht Club fleet made ready for the gold-star event of U. S. yachting. Early one morning, a tall, slightly stooped man stepped to the bridge of his big white steam yacht Nourmahal and gave a signal. A gun boomed. Moorings were slipped and out sailed the fleet in the wake of Commodore William Vincent Astor. Among many another power craft that churned along with the fleet was John Pierpont Morgan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Yachts | 8/19/1929 | See Source »

...Because audiences, made critical by the increasing efficiency of the sound device, can always tell when the star player moves his or her lips while an unseen person does the singing, officials of Warner and First National advised their studios last week to allow no more doubling...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Variations Aug. 12, 1929 | 8/12/1929 | See Source »

...ranch he quickly told his daughter the rest of Mr. Ziegfeld's story?Ruby Keeler, pert star of Show Girl, third wife of Al ("Mammy") Jolson, had been mysteriously stricken during a performance. With a twinge of sympathy for Ruby, a burst of joy for her own good fortune, Dorothy Stone ran to pack...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: Show Girls | 8/12/1929 | See Source »

...shooting star; a mass of matter from celestial space striking the earth's atmosphere and bursting into flame...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Brightest Boys | 8/12/1929 | See Source »

Previous | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | 21 | 22 | 23 | 24 | 25 | 26 | 27 | 28 | 29 | 30 | 31 | 32 | 33 | 34 | Next