Search Details

Word: ve (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

Your magazine is just what I've been seeking. I read many publications that purport to serve a similar need, but in each case I have been dis- appointed. Rehashes and incoherent excerpts are not only bewildering but maddening. Your magazine covers the ground in a style that is both provocative and individual. I wish to goodness I had been a subscriber from the first issue...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Dec. 2, 1929 | 12/2/1929 | See Source »

...night the village fife & drum corps, after band practice, stopped in front of the Fleming house to bedevil its occupants. Lewis Collier, Alloway's postmaster and band leader, vainly tried to quell his bandsmen. Out of the house stormed Mrs. Fleming. "I've had enough of this!" she screamed. Drawing a gun from her bosom she shot Postmaster Collier through the chest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE STATES: Pure Alloway | 12/2/1929 | See Source »

...engaged me for the role if I were so dumb he would say, 'Ach, I was dumb too, that day.' ... I wanted to see a finished print of The Love Parade. Every time I told Lubitsch he would tell me, 'Don't be so anxious, I've cut most of your scenes out. There's plenty of you lying around on the floor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures Dec. 2, 1929 | 12/2/1929 | See Source »

...Harvard line looked very good, as it did against West Point, and Mays is the best back I've seen since the days of Eddie Mahan."--J. D. Upton '93, former Harvard tackle...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: NEWSPAPER CRITCS UNITE IN PRAISING FIGHTING SPIRT SHOWN BY HARVARD MEN | 11/25/1929 | See Source »

...then have a good deal left. I'll say it's a great game, but believe me you can't get much rest. The last few years that I have been in it have been plenty full of all kinds of excitement. They never really got me but they've come pretty close sometimes. Look at that. See right along the middle of that finger where that scar is. I got that one night out on the road. Yeah a bunch of 'feds' were chasing me and one of them took a shot. It broke the windshield...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Bootlegger Describes Interesting Incidents of a Very Adventurous and Hazardous Trade | 11/23/1929 | See Source »

Previous | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | Next