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Word: traps (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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Marriage Annulled. Helen Wainwright Holland, famed swimmer, married with a 10? wedding ring in April (because her theatre manager desired publicity), from one George Leonard Holland, trap drummer. She charged fraud. "My marriage was only a joke...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Oct. 17, 1927 | 10/17/1927 | See Source »

...take Pavel Jerdanowitsch that Paul Jordan Smith decided that the artist must die. According-ingly he exposed his duality through the columns of the Los Angeles Sunday Times. His chief delight seems to be that France, whence final decrees on the vague modern estheticism emanate, fell headlong Into his trap...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hoax | 9/19/1927 | See Source »

...Trap v. Crap...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Aug. 1, 1927 | 8/1/1927 | See Source »

There was no typographical error. Trap-shooting contests for Elks were held at Coney Island, a Cincinnati play park...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Aug. 1, 1927 | 8/1/1927 | See Source »

...time the new Free State had to employ an army of 40,000 men to put down that violence which had become second nature to Irishmen. Firmness was needed and Mr. O'Higgins proved himself capable of making bold, salutary decisions with the quickness of a steel trap. His enemies became innumerable. His success in quieting Ireland and restoring the police power earned him a title: "Ireland's Strongest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foul Murder | 7/18/1927 | See Source »

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