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Word: walls (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...This tiny modern bar made from two wall closets measures only three yards square. The whole room is finished in silver leaf, with the walls striped in blue, silver and copper color. Linoleum painted black, ivory, pink and tan covers the floor and the lights are tubes of frosted blue glass...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PROHIBITION: Smartchart | 9/9/1929 | See Source »

...Katherine Brush from which it is supposed to be taken. To make it long enough for a feature, Director Robert Florey photographed and recorded an audience ceaselessly clapping hands. Worst sound: the henlike cackling of women in the lavabo. The Gamblers (Warner). This picture is a ponderous leer at Wall Street corruption. It has that annoying air of knowingness peculiar to bad parlor realism. In extraordinarily ornate offices, ballrooms, conservatories, H. B. Warner, Lois Wilson and Jason Robards argue and glare and pull each other around. The triangle includes a banker and his son who do not want their accounts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures Sep. 9, 1929 | 9/9/1929 | See Source »

...fighting that began between Jews and Arabs at Jerusalem's Wailing Wall (TIME, Aug. 26) spread last week throughout Palestine, then inflamed fierce tribesmen of the Moslem countries which face the Holy Land...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Islam v. Israel | 9/9/1929 | See Source »

...Torn from the wall next day and blown from the mouth of a cannon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AFGHANISTAN: French-Fried General | 9/2/1929 | See Source »

...weeks ago United Cigar Co, and Tobacco Products Corp. changed hands (TIME, Aug. 26). The hands into which they passed were those of George Kenan Morrow and his brother Frederick. Since the Morrows were known to be interested in a number of food products, Wall Street began to talk of a new food products combination, perhaps rivaling the recent Morgan merger (Standard Brands). Last week, confirming that guess, four companies ? Toddy Corp. (chocolate malted milk), Edward H. Jacob (canned mushrooms), Kitchen Bouquet (liquid flavoring extracts), Fould Milling (macaroni) ? united in Grocery Store Products Inc., and the name...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Two Morrows | 9/2/1929 | See Source »

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