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Word: sweete (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Ivory Door. A play which may perhaps grow dear to high school graduating classes galled critics. In it they saw the doleful spectre of A. A. Milne burlesquing himself unconsciously. The Ivory Door, shockingly sweet, extracted from flabby matrons purrs of "adorable...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Oct. 31, 1927 | 10/31/1927 | See Source »

...razing of some old buildings across 15th Street from the Treasury Building in Washington (where the new Department of Commerce building is to rise), rodents and insects were noticed in unusual numbers near the treasury coal and trash vaults. Bug-catcher's were put on guard with "sweet air," a special gas, to kill the roaches. Rat-catchers patrolled the treasury basements by night with small rifles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Rats, Roaches | 10/24/1927 | See Source »

Living Low, Sweet Chariot...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE CRIME | 10/22/1927 | See Source »

...game, is now revealed. All Broadway and showbusiness knew him anyway as actor and producer of Sally, Irene, and Mary and Honeymoon Lane. To the public at large he is just another theatrical producer, fortunate in his word-of-mouth advertising. His show is much like his earlier shows; sweet and swift and aimed at the simple public rather than the shrewd. It is all Manhattan life in tinsel musical comedy caricature. The obstreperous Ray Dooley (Mrs. Bowling) makes parts of it hilariously amusing with her squalling childlike tactics. There is one terrible moment when an actor representing Governor Alfred...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: New Plays in Manhattan: Oct. 17, 1927 | 10/17/1927 | See Source »

There are three tremblings sweet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Bright Doom | 10/10/1927 | See Source »

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