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Word: station (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...things, is a dream fantasy. A pugilist is hit on the chin and the developments of the second act are designed to explain what a pugilist thinks about when he is knocked unconscious. It seems this particular pugilist wanted to be an architect and marry a maid above his station. His distrustful manager suggested that if he persisted in these inflated notions he would land at police headquarters. These disheveled inventions are woven into a play, mad enough to fool most of the spectators for much, of the evening. When the hero took the stage and exterminated virtually the entire...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Feb. 27, 1928 | 2/27/1928 | See Source »

...team, to debate the University of Pennsylvania at Philadelphia this evening on the question, "Resolved, That the jury system should be abolished." Besides the debating team and Coach Rowe, A. F. Reel '28 and D. E. Scoll '28, president and treasurer of the Debating Council, also left the South Station last night to make the trip. This debate marks the dedication of a new auditorium at Philadelphia...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ORATORS TO DEBATE ABOLITION OF JURY | 2/24/1928 | See Source »

...story noted honor done to Citizen George Dent Crabbs for his part ("wise, eloquent") in obtaining for Cincinnati a new railway station...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: In Cincinnati | 2/20/1928 | See Source »

...where she lives with a loose lady and suffers as noticeably as possible. At last, just when she is about to marry the rich man, the vigilant Vigilati puts in a timely reappearance. He must go off to war immediately, but first he has time to stand on the station platform while a camera makes it clear that the world...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures Feb. 20, 1928 | 2/20/1928 | See Source »

Passengers on the Royal Palm Limited, Florida bound, were robbed of their clothing and valuables one night last week before the train reached Atlanta, Ga. They suspected a young couple who got off at Atlanta next morning, rushed into the passenger station after them, had them arrested. Negro baggagemen were amazed that white folk should wear blue pajamas and pink negligees in a public place in broad daylight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Yegg | 2/20/1928 | See Source »

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