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Word: went (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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Eagerly they went, wondering whether the House of Morgan was about to issue a counterblast against Governor Roosevelt or had decided to backtrack from the blast of adverse publicity. Neither appeared to be the case. They were received in a most easy manner by Morgan Partners Thomas W. Lamont and Harold Stanley. Mr. Lament, always popular with newsmen, issued the statement...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PUBLIC UTILITIES: Voice of Morgan | 9/30/1929 | See Source »

...dark night, near Ambrose Light Ship and Coast Guard boat No. 145 sighted with her searchlight a small boat which appeared to be a U. S. vessel running without lights. The name upon her stern was covered by a canvas. Toot, toot, toot, went the Coast Guard craft, signalling for the vessel to stop. No answer. Pop, pop, pop went three blank shots from the patrol boat. Still no answer. Bang, bang went two 4-lb. shells. The vessel still refused to stop or give her name but the searchlight picked up the lettering Shawnee. upon the bow, a name...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PROHIBITION: Two Stories | 9/30/1929 | See Source »

...reposed his elbow on his knee, shoved his cap over to an effectively hard-boiled angle, and went on: "I understand that there is some difference of opinion among civilians concerning the right and wrong of prohibition. Some of it got into camp, but those on the negative side are in the brig. It's a closed question to the military, so as long as you wear those uniforms, don't get opinionated...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Quantico's Quandary | 9/30/1929 | See Source »

Chronicles of more regent date make it clear, that Miss. Claire's personal glances into the pages of history were first made in Washington, D. C., where she grew up and went to public school. Her father was killed in an accident four months before she was born. Although her present familiarity with the great figures of the past suggests, perhaps correctly, long silent hours devoted to scholarship, friends recall that her penchant for playing hooky worried her mother a lot until Ina convinced her that, as she had already determined to become an actress, she did not need...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures Sep. 30, 1929 | 9/30/1929 | See Source »

...outa night spent so distinctly to her own taste that at 5:30 a. m. Gilbert, still sitting up and still alone, got into his car and drove off at a furious pace into the Riviera dawn. Mrs. Gilbert came home, became excited, threw some things in a suitcase, went away somewhere. Reunited in Paris, they now refer to this incident as a "slight tiff." They are returning to the U. S. soon to make more pictures...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures Sep. 30, 1929 | 9/30/1929 | See Source »

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