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Word: whirlpool (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Whirlpool, in which handsome Edward Leiter represented a small town pastor's struggle against sex, capital and gossip, closed after three performances. It was earnest and trite. Most of its potential public were busy with Christmas shopping...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Dec. 16, 1929 | 12/16/1929 | See Source »

...slow journeys up and down canals, or perhaps discouraged by Actress Sally O'Neill's coyness and Actor Malcolm MacGregor's self-possession, the producers of this picture combine mediocre photography with choppy storytelling. Worst shot: studio tank vexed by a wind-machine to indicate a whirlpool...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures Mar. 11, 1929 | 3/11/1929 | See Source »

drobwll brobuth whirlpool...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Too Muck for Crick | 3/4/1929 | See Source »

Freely translated the name (really a long phrase) means: The Church of Saint Mary in a hollow of white hazel near to the rapid whirlpool by a red cave...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Too Muck for Crick | 3/4/1929 | See Source »

...paid a man $50 to show her how. He took her one Sunday night to the gorge dam at Niagara Falls, lowered her by a rope to the trestle of the Michigan Central Railroad. With little, cautious steps she walked along the cold steel girders, while the Whirlpool Rapids 250 feet below howled at her. She was shrewd enough to put her legs in trousers instead of flapping, treacherous skirts. She reached U. S. soil. Last week she was arrested with four other young women who had crossed from Canada in rowboats the night after her bridge-walk. All were...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: IMMIGRATION: In Dead of Night | 3/12/1928 | See Source »

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