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Word: storming (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...storm of applause which greeted the appearance of W. L. Wilson '27 last night as the red-headed Queen Elizabeth in the Hasty Pudding club's eighty first annual riot, seems to indicate a public demand to investigate further this question of color. The wise man will only look more devilish and confine his remarks to the cleverness, good looks, and ability of said Wilson, who is even better this year than in the past two years, which is as much as can be said for any actor. Arnie Horween was heard to mutter that if he only...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Red-Headed Queen Features in Eighty-First Annual Pudding Riot--Chorus is Sylph-Like | 4/7/1927 | See Source »

Over Greenwood, Miss., a long, streaming V of wild geese beat their way north from the Gulf of Mexico into a thunder storm. Flares and crashes tore up the smooth formation. Geese swooped for coverage. Twenty-six dropped, plumb, dead, onto the farm of Robert Townes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Brakeman | 4/4/1927 | See Source »

...gust of wind blew out the storm doors and plate glass front of the Goldfield Hotel at Tonopah. Nobody cared. There was a fresh "strike" at Barrel Springs, five miles from Weepah. The rushers swerved thence, eddied back, chattered, milled around, boasted, dreamed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GOLD: Yellow Fever | 3/28/1927 | See Source »

...Davidson's statue shows the influence of "The Covered Wagon" motif and hence will no doubt be popular in the balloting. His tall spare woman leans forward as she scrutinizes the prairie horizon for her Dan'l, who is probably delayed during a storm at Faro Pete's Saloon. The character might well be stolen from Fannie Hurst. She is not so vivid as his famed "Call To Arms" figure which everyone remembers as the woman with her feet planted flat, her arms upraised, mouth wide in battle call to France. Mr. Davidson, born and reared...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Pioneer | 3/28/1927 | See Source »

...time of the Apostles until recent years. But when public opinion changed it did not need the 18th Amendment, not withstanding the 14th, to enable a State to say that the business should end. What has happened to lotteries and wine might happen to theatres in some moral storm of the future...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JUDICIARY: Scalping Is Legal | 3/14/1927 | See Source »

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