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Word: unpleasanter (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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Of the large cast two members stand out: Nydia Westman, as a flip but honest showgirl, and Clyde Dilson, as a suave but unpleasant Chicago gunman. There is also a knife-thrower who knows his business and a bucking broncho that isn't afraid of a first-night audience...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Apr. 1, 1929 | 4/1/1929 | See Source »

(3 of 3) the only U. S.-bred winner (U. S.-owned horses have won it twice: Stephen Sanford's Sergeant Murphy, 1923; A. Charles Schwartz's Jack Horner, 1926). Rubio was shipped to England as a racer, failed to do well, was sold for $75, hauled a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Horses, Horses, Horses | 3/18/1929 | See Source »

The Lord Mayor of London for 1929 is bustling, up-to-the-minute Colonel Sir John Edward Kynaston Studd, but the hoar and mighty Mansion House is just as Dickens knew it, and much as it has been for over 180 years. Trooping in, last week, to dine off the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Wise Wales | 3/4/1929 | See Source »

Round 14. Mr. Rockefeller Sr., aroused, in Ormond Beach, Fla., issued his first formal public statement in ten years. In the diplomatic third person, he pronounced false any reports that he was not heart and soul with his son. "It has been an unpleasant duty for him [the son], but...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Rockefeller v. Stewart | 2/11/1929 | See Source »

Unpleasant little things may have afflicted Massachusetts Republicans on Election Day, but national good fortune has its redeeming features. And so "the political plum tree," announces a news despatch in a Boston Paper, will he loaded down with "2000 luscious jobs" when the federal census is take in 1930. Most...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THERE IS A SANTA CLAUS | 1/29/1929 | See Source »

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