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Word: thinks (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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Tale-Teller Herbert von Hindenburg, added: "My uncle was not boasting. I think it is true that no one has seen him nervous or heard him whistle, either as Feldmarschall or Reichspraesident...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: Hindenburg's Whistle | 10/15/1928 | See Source »

...best high comedy, perhaps, is achieved by characters who are not prone to think of duty until after they have remembered all the other essentials for life's picnic. Margaret Lawrence has played roles in which she was far more charming than she is now as Mrs. Anne Whiteman; but, having had the courage to be unattractive, she also has the skill to make herself a nagging monster. The most noteworthy events in the career of Margaret Lawrence have been her returns to the stage; one, in 1918, after several years of leisure; the other last year after...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Oct. 15, 1928 | 10/15/1928 | See Source »

...Presbyterians are more famed, revealed himself last week at the opening of the Sunday Evening Club Season. Dr. Henry Van Dyke was a new presence to many who remembered his radio talk of a week be fore, wherein he flayed intolerance. His unequivocal pronouncements led many to think of him as an ox-boned fullback with a brain. Instead they saw a bristling little man, no taller than many a grammar schoolchild. Similar surprises, some dis appointments will occur every Sunday night during the season...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Red Mass | 10/15/1928 | See Source »

Janet Gaynor, newer to fame, is currently contrasted with Clara Bow. Clara stood for sex; Janet for sentiment. The Bow-sprite lingers at the great U. S. soda-fountain of youth, along with 'Varsity drags, high school fraternities, sheikism, shebaism, girls who say "If you don't think so, you're ca-RAzy," insipid youths who say "And I don't mean perhaps." More truly, with greater ease than any other cinemactress, the Bow-sprite typifies the slangy, vital grisette who frolics in and out of adolescence, does her marrying, gets the embonpoint...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures Oct. 15, 1928 | 10/15/1928 | See Source »

...course, may be on the wrong track. Conceivably, John Harvard's mother and Shakespere may have been unacquainted neighbors. But the peculiar circumstances are certainly inviting of speculation, especially to those who like to see striking relationships among great men. In any event, however. It is pleasing to think that the remembrance of his early association with the imperial poet may have influenced the founder of Harvard College to forward learning in the New World...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FATHER WILLIAM, FATHER JOHN | 10/15/1928 | See Source »

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