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Word: star (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...obviously intended to allay the fear of the French that the United States might attempt elsewhere the militant methods of debt collection that she has found so successful in South America. Lately the French cartoonists have been making pointed pictorial insinuations about the inexplicably large navy which their star-spangled Shylock is providing. In the light of this fear, it was unfortunate, perhaps typically so, that Secretary Kellogg, on the day before the signing, should propose another treaty, this time to abolish submarines, which happen to be the basis of the French navy...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SPRIGS OF OLIVE | 2/7/1928 | See Source »

Courtesy and convenience have shortened to "President" the title commonly affixed to William Thomas Cosgrave of the Irish Free State. Last week, as he terminated his U. S. visit (TIME, Jan. 9 et seq.) and prepared to sail from Manhattan on the White Star liner Olympic, Mr. Cosgrave frankly said about his title what is known to every Englishman but perhaps not to every Irishman...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: I, Cosgrave | 2/6/1928 | See Source »

Come to My House. Olive Borden, a synthetic star at best, is herein tangled in elaborately scanty clothes and in the wiles of a blackmailer who has seen her entering the house of a presumably dissolute male friend. The male friend kills the blackmailer and is saved from the iron hand of the law when the heroine confesses her visitation. The invitation in the title should be declined by highly discriminating cine-maddicts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures Feb. 6, 1928 | 2/6/1928 | See Source »

Liggett & Myers Tobacco Co. (ciga-rets: Chesterfield, Fatima, Piedmont; smoking tobacco: Velvet, Granger Rough Cut; chewing tobacco: Star, Horse Shoe) ?$18,743,395. Previous year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: More Earnings | 2/6/1928 | See Source »

...game was won in a five-minute overtime period. The highest scorer on the winning team was R.H. Hedges 2G.B., who made 11 points, but Captain L.L. Jones 2G.B., former M.A.C. star also proved to be an effective player...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "NONPAREILS" DEFEAT M.A.C. FIVE | 2/6/1928 | See Source »

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