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Word: twelfths (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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Independent theatre owners, voting on box-office appeal of cinema people, ranked Clara Bow best of women, Colleen Moore second, Billie Dove third, Mary Pickford sixth, Greta Garbo twelfth. Of men, Lon Chancy was first, Tom Mix second, John Gilbert third...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Variations Jan. 28, 1929 | 1/28/1929 | See Source »

...twelfth group of First Year Law Courts will receive their assignments today. For these clubs briefs are due on February 5 and the arguments will take place on February 12 at the places specified. The plaintiff is mentioned first in the following summaries...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: In the Graduate Schools | 1/22/1929 | See Source »

Valuable manuscripts of Goldsmith which have been on display in the Widener Library Treasure Room during the past week have given way to medieval French paintings on the nativity, while a collection of letters of Lord Nelson is soon to be removed to make way for more copies of twelfth, thirteenth and fourteenth century manuscripts and paintings...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: COLLECTIONS and CRITIQUES | 12/15/1928 | See Source »

...thirteenth century, show the pages from Matthew and Luke in which the story of the nativity is written, with the margin beside each verse illustrating the content with colored drawings. Another interesting group contains plates made from old paintings depicting the life of Christ as a monk of the twelfth century...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: COLLECTIONS and CRITIQUES | 12/15/1928 | See Source »

...small book on St. Valentine's day with many illustrations probably the most valuable book in the third display case it is chiefly composed of a series of pictures of the adversities suffered by lovers the pictures being tied together by a story. The original drawings for Park's "Twelfth Night" are of about equal value. This is a series of pictures for the Park's book of games to be played on the twelfth night after Christmas a day which is always celebrated in England as concluding the Christmas season. Washington Irving's "History of New York" with illustrations...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: COLLECTIONS and CRITIQUES | 11/27/1928 | See Source »

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