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Word: youngs (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...most astute among Manhattan's female producers. "Precious" is the name of a girl, in some respects resembling the popular conception of Peaches Browning, who marries and mines a rich elderly man. At length, he grows tired of being the goat and palms "Precious" off on a young architect...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: New Plays in Manhattan: Jan. 28, 1929 | 1/28/1929 | See Source »

...bearer of the invitation was Sir Esme Howard, Dean of the Diplomatic Corps at Washington, Ambassador of His Britannic Majesty. Present and also invited by the Powers was Owen D. Young, chairman of the General Electric Co., chairman of the Radio Corp. of America, chief collaborator with General Dawes on the original Plan. Officially Mr. Young and Mr. Morgan will rank as equals on the new Committee; but Mr. Young is expected to sit as chairman...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: Morgan Accepts | 1/28/1929 | See Source »

...Sever 17 Ellsworth-Wolfe Sever 18 Economics 10a Emerson A English 14 Memorial Hall Fine Arts 3a Robinson Hall Fine Arts 9a New Fogg Large Lect.-rm. French B Memorial Hall French 17 Sever 29 Geology 4 Abramovitz-Fuller Geol. Lect.-rm. Gardner-Sweezy Mallinckrodt Large Lect.-rm. Tatham-Young Pierce 304 Geology 10 Rotch Bldg. German 2, IV Sever 24 German 26a Sever 29 Government 3a Harvard 5 Government 11a Emerson A Greek A sever 36 Greek G I sever 36 History 2a Almy-Ingoldsby Harvard 2 Jackson-Zevitas Harvard 6 History 23a Widener 417 History 54 Andover...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Midyear Examinations | 1/26/1929 | See Source »

...there's reason in her badness, and despite a shady reputation in matters pertaining to sex, she's not half so wicked as the district attorney would like to make the jury believe. She has no witnesses, however, and her case begins to look extremely dark when her impetuous young brother, an embryonic lawyer, messes things up worse by objecting to the methods of her counsel. From this point on the story resolves itself into a series of detective masterpieces manoeuvered by this young brother which gradually bring the doubtful jury around from a position of cold hostility to warm...

Author: By P. C. S., | Title: The Crimson Playgoer | 1/25/1929 | See Source »

...comic music by means of a variety of devices, none of them very new but all skillfully executed and entertaining. It soon appears that the wife of the French ambassador has some incriminating letters from her husband's subordinate, the attache, that make the task of this young man more than ordinarily difficult and provide an abundance of embarrassing situations. Epigrams on the nature of virtue, love, and related matters help keep the dialog from sagging after a rather lame beginning, and there is some room for satire of a rather superior brand on the diplomatic profession...

Author: By R. L. W. jr., | Title: The Crimson Playgoer | 1/23/1929 | See Source »

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