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Word: windowe (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...invade and win the South, the conventional Mark Hanna Republican of the brewery and bloody shirt will not do. There must be some disguise. The window dressing, this stalking horse, this bearer southward of the Judas kiss, seems to have been acquired in the person of Senator William E. Borah of Idaho." He described Senator Borah as a "peddler of political wares which he himself did not believe in when they were being made...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Campaigners | 11/5/1928 | See Source »

...week, married Gert. On his wedding night, he discovered that he had a weak heart and would soon die. The idea of suicide came to him like an inspiration or the thought of a journey. Gert did not wish to live any longer either; so Ed closed the window and opened...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: New Plays in Manhattan: Nov. 5, 1928 | 11/5/1928 | See Source »

...Another window contains the original drawings of Tenniel to illustrate "Alice in Wonderland. Among familiar faces may be seen "Father William", the "Mad Hatter," and the "Rabbit" as they first made their bows to the world...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: COLLECTIONS and CRITIQUES | 11/1/1928 | See Source »

...play pinochle in the assembly room and gangsters croak a jeweler on East 37th Street, Manhattan. On the trail of "Mile-Away" Healey, undertaker, suspected murderer, gang-leader, move the swollen feet of Detective Chancy. His face, which successfully suggests the face of an experienced bloodhound, looks through the window of a lunchroom wherein Mile-Away is quarreling with a recent mistress; the same face pushes out of a coffin in Mile-Away's funeral parlors and later appears suddenly in a dark corner of a fur store which Mile-Away's gang is robbing. This face...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures Oct. 29, 1928 | 10/29/1928 | See Source »

...series of tense sequences, finely directed and photographed, the story moves to the scene in which the inevitable machine rifle volleys death from a second-story window at the gang attempting a getaway. But the gang differs from past cinema gangs in that its members are not millionaires but needy-looking fellows; the good girl would certainly have been bad if she hadn't been watched...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures Oct. 29, 1928 | 10/29/1928 | See Source »

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