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Word: tiffs (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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This delightful, unfortunate fellow, brooding over the misery which he causes his wife (Vivienne Osborne), finally shoots himself. By that time she is leaning toward a virile magazine writer (Warren Williams) and their host and hostess have settled a domestic tiff which also involved the drunkard's buxom spouse. These people are all members of the so-called "lost generation," and their varied plights are sincerely described even though the host and the writer continually hark back to their Wartime comradeship with enthusiasm of the "You old rhinoceros!" variety...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Nov. 4, 1929 | 11/4/1929 | See Source »

...Gilbert, still sitting up and still alone, got into his car and drove off at a furious pace into the Riviera dawn. Mrs. Gilbert came home, became excited, threw some things in a suitcase, went away somewhere. Reunited in Paris, they now refer to this incident as a "slight tiff." They are returning to the U. S. soon to make more pictures...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures Sep. 30, 1929 | 9/30/1929 | See Source »

Thus Washingtonians, last week, were completely at a loss for an explanation which would reconcile the Post's discourtesy to the Prince, and Publisher McLean's denial of connection therewith. Many a Washingtonian did indeed continue to believe that Prince and Publisher had had a tiff, and that the tiff had been preceded by meat and drink, and that it had resulted in Prince and Publisher each feeling insulted by the other...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Damage Suits | 5/27/1929 | See Source »

...scratch both or either plain tiff?" asked the landlady's counsel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Strabolgi v. Hanner | 5/13/1929 | See Source »

Married. Mr. Tifft, paper box manufacturer of Brooklyn, N. Y., and one Ruth Esther Petersonn, of Fryburg, Me.; in South Berwick, Maine. A parental tiff over names left Mr. Tifft first nameless; he remains so, is listed in the telephone book as TIFFT...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Jan. 21, 1929 | 1/21/1929 | See Source »

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