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Word: womening (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...went Ratliff for the third and last time. Men, women and children gaped up in silence at his naked body as it swung for two hours in the wind...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: String Him Up | 12/2/1929 | See Source »

...want no women and I want no tears," were almost his last words.* "Let me die before...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Clemenceau | 12/2/1929 | See Source »

Every day in Vienna men and women gather in groups of 50 at the house of an uncouth old fellow who dresses like a farmer. Standing respectfully in a circle, they strip to the waist, permit him to approach and stroke them with the tip of an "electric pencil." It crackles softly as it passes over their flesh. Last week the Austrian Government announced that Herr Valentin ("Electric Pencil') Zeileis had just paid his tax on an income of $30,000 for last year. Not exactly a charlatan, Herr Zeileis does not claim to cure the people he strokes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AUSTRIA: Pencil Man | 12/2/1929 | See Source »

...Negri pictures, he showed that he was even better at comedy than serious things. He colored The Marriage Circle with a sophisticated, subtle wit. Last year he made The Patriot. Burly, with a habit of scowling slightly, he likes sun baths, rye bread, practical jokes. He treats the young women working for him with waggish irascibility. Complained Miss MacDonald, neophyte, last week...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures Dec. 2, 1929 | 12/2/1929 | See Source »

...kiss her. Her lawyer, who is her real lover, convinces the jury that her husband committed suicide. Throughout these proceedings Greta Garbo wears beautiful, oulandish clothes. At times her talent even brings a flash of something vital and convincing to the dull, over-photographed sequences. Best shot: three cleaning women eating lunch at the judge's bench after session...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures Dec. 2, 1929 | 12/2/1929 | See Source »

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