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Word: things (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...those who enjoy the precocious if somewhat naive prattle of wide awake found ladies with a "career" on the stage awaiting them "Angel Child" by Grace Perkins is just the thing it is so to speak the diary of a girl of thirteen who travels the circuit with her mother and plays juvenile parts mean while keeping an open eye upon the rest of the company life in general and a place in the moving pictures in particular...

Author: By H. F. S., | Title: BOOKENDS | 11/27/1928 | See Source »

...jovial, shrewd and bland. He is a University of Zurich Ph. D. He served apprenticeship to his present post of huge responsibility as Minister of Foreign Trade for the Ukraine. With all the emphasis at his booming command Saul G. Bron said: "Regardless of all difficulties and obstacles, one thing is clear to me, and that is that the harvest of 1927-28 has supplied the Soviet Union with a sufficient amount of grain, and therefore every necessity for grain imports, such as has been alleged in some reports is precluded...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Days of Wrath | 11/26/1928 | See Source »

...said: "Boys, listen to the old steel master from Bethlehem. I am getting old [66]. ... I have learned a lot since I started as a boy with Mr. Carnegie. I learned a lot about steel, but more important I learned a lot about life. Ah, that is the thing. Be happy. . . . When my time comes to die I do not want to be surrounded by granite and marble. I want to be amidst steel, beams and 'Ls' where I have been happy all my life. I will now leave you to go back to my business...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Nov. 26, 1928 | 11/26/1928 | See Source »

...half of the other dove into the ditch after it had failed to gore four citizens and a ticket booth . . . The other member of the second goalpost was checked for Straus Hall by the unfailing courtesy that is the Taft Hotel. . . . Six men found a trolly car roof the thing that was being done in transportation from the Bowl to Chapel Street...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BUT THE MELODY LINGERS ON | 11/26/1928 | See Source »

...strange thing about Pennsylvania's football legerdemain is that the whole world doesn't know out it. The Quakers used a squad of almost fifty men all these players knew all about it. When that it can hardly be called a secret...

Author: By Harry Cross and Sports Editor, S | Title: FROM ANOTHER ANGLE | 11/26/1928 | See Source »

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