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Word: went (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Dawes statement, a characteristic one, also registered acutely upon several other consciousnesses. Many a U. S. economist had ministered to the wilting financial systems of other nations before Budgetarian Dawes went to Santo Domingo...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FISCAL: Dollar Doctors | 5/13/1929 | See Source »

...Pineville, 200 workers went back to their looms and spindles, claiming that they had been "starved out" by the union. Into Pineville only $150 had been sent to sustain 150 families during three weeks of strike...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: War of Attrition | 5/13/1929 | See Source »

...Freiburg, Germany.* Last week the Freiburg players appeared in Manhattan, presented by Morris Gest, directed by David Belasco. The locale was the gigantic Hippodrome, onetime scene of elephantine musical shows in which Annette Kellerman swam, Charlotte skated, Nat Wills buffooned. To see the story of the benign, miraculous Nazarene went a strange audience, women whose faces were chalky with rouge, men with creaking collars and glistening hats. Sensitive Manhattan Jews flayed Producer Gest, some...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: May 13, 1929 | 5/13/1929 | See Source »

Before he was 12, Chevalier painted dolls in a factory at Menilmontant, near Paris. He tried to be an acrobat but sprained his ankle. Later he made three francs an evening imitating famed singers in the Casino des Tourelles. He danced with Mistinguette at the Folies-Bergere, went to war, escaped from a German prison camp to get back to the Folies. Ernst Lubitsch (the Patriot) will direct him in an operetta...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures May 13, 1929 | 5/13/1929 | See Source »

President Portes Gil went on to say last week: "The suppression of the insurrection has destroyed all dissident groups and clears the way for realization of the Government's program of Peace, impartial Democracy and vigorous commercial expansion of the State...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MEXICO: Beneficial Insurrection | 5/13/1929 | See Source »

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