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Word: unraveler (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...lose. With Blanche Sweet acting her exceptional best, the entertainment is a better than average sample. She plays an actress with whom a man in the audience falls in love. Off they go to South America, where she poses as his sister. Intrigue, native rising and a final happiness unravel. Two stretches of brilliant color film help considerably...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures Apr. 20, 1925 | 4/20/1925 | See Source »

...aright; not the pious sentiment assumed by nearly every politician on going into office, but the humility of a man who finds he is faced by "a tough proposition" to meet which he must draw on his best capabilities. Likewise he had confidence, the conviction that his mind could unravel the intricacies of any problem, given time and the facts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Man and the Mask | 2/23/1925 | See Source »

...promptly accept his story under the delusion that he is the prince writing under a "nom de plume." During this act there are several songs and a specialty act of Jake's. The plot unfolds during the second and third acts with a series of complications which of course unravel themselves, and the play closes with the inevitable happy ending, flavored by another act of Jake...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CURTAIN TO RISE ON PI ETA CLUB SHOW | 1/8/1925 | See Source »

SILENCE?H. B. Warner, some detectives and a girl unravel a murder mystery in breathless, if not particularly important, fashion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: The Best Plays: Dec. 22, 1924 | 12/22/1924 | See Source »

...Spanish Viceroy of California about 1640. The main plot, which incidentally contains numerous other plots, is the result of the meeting between these two. The complications become so frequent that the title, "Who's Who," is said to be a confession of the inability of the authors themselves to unravel the plot...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PUDDING SHOW IS FULL OF MYSTERY | 3/19/1924 | See Source »

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