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Word: sureness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...this cruel fact there might be a few moments of national mourning. The Follies started in 1907 and became indisputably the sovereign of all the annual revues. Of late years they have had more competition and were occasionally surpassed by others. Yet the name Ziegfeld Follies was as sure a trademark of excellent entertainment as one could find in the show business. One trusts that from the shadows of dispute it may sometime rise again...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Plays: Jul. 5, 1926 | 7/5/1926 | See Source »

...discovered this jewel by accident. Sure, enter my subscription...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Jun. 28, 1926 | 6/28/1926 | See Source »

...Democrats, whose stronghold is New York City, discovered that it was good policy to be Wet. The Republicans, much of whose strength is in upstate Dry regions, have heretofore been arid. The leaders to be chosen for this year's electoral battle were eagerly awaited. The one sure contestant had been Republican Senator Wadsworth, who comes up for reelection. He is the representative of a "landed family," the members of which have since 1790 acquired 35,000 acres of land in Livingstone County, N. Y., have occasionally taken part in politics and not infrequently in wars. His father...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICAL NOTES: In New York | 6/21/1926 | See Source »

...play was not bad enough to warrant such abuse. It was, to be sure, not good enough to warrant more than light laughter and a few long yawns. There have, however, been worse plays these recent seasons, several of them. The outcry at Beyond Evil was simply an indication of the growing indignance of metropolitan audiences at high-flown, false emotion badly acted. There is a sound corrective in this frankness. Actors and authors will hesitate before risking unbridled ridicule...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Plays: Jun. 21, 1926 | 6/21/1926 | See Source »

...audience which warmly greeted the début of a contralto in Minneapolis were many sharp- seeing critics of pugilism. They were not always sure of the correct moment to applaud, but when they got the "tip" from others, they joined raucously in the hand-slapping. They did not "razz" as was their wont when displeased at prize fights. They were the former pals and admirers of Billy Miske, deceased pug, whose widow has assumed concert singing as her mode of breadwinning. Miske made a fortune in the ring, lost it in investments...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Sic Continuat Gloria Mundi | 6/14/1926 | See Source »

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