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Word: humphrey (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Roaring Twenties (Warner Bros.). This version of the James Cagney-Humphrey Bogart running gun fight begins when Cagney tumbles into Bogart's shell hole one day in 1918, ends with Killers Cagney and Bogart both killed. In between are too many rounds of blank cartridges to count, a darkly ominous commentator who punctuates a morality play about the somewhat dated evils of rum-running, bootlegging, highjacking, speakeasies and Prohibition with warnings that after all, they may happen again...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Also Showing | 11/13/1939 | See Source »

...legal bout he has vowed to carry to the Supreme Court. Judge George C. Taylor of Federal District Court in Knoxville ruled that the President "has the power of removal as an incident to the power of appointment," but admitted that previous Supreme Court decisions in the Myers and Humphrey cases have left "a field of doubt" for future exploration. Mr. Morgan's attorneys, still challenging the President's power of removal and seeking $2,961.66 in back salary for the explosive old engineer and educator, promised an appeal to the Circuit Court of Appeals...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Field of Doubt | 8/21/1939 | See Source »

...HANDS ON THE CLOCK-Geoffrey Homes-Morrow ($2). Milk-drinking Humphrey Campbell, called in to find the missing son of a Reno millionaire, solves three murders, puts the finger on a gang of bank robbers. Fast, hardboiled, sparky dialogue...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: June Mysteries | 7/3/1939 | See Source »

YALE--Schroeder looked at a third strike. Humphrey singled to center, but Loveday hit into a snappy twin kill, short to second to first. One hit, no runs...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: How the Crimson Beat Yale Yesterday | 6/22/1939 | See Source »

HARVARD--Johns was called out on strikes. Gannett singled, stole second, and counted on Grondahl's ringing triple to deep right center. This drove Joe Wood out of the box and Dud Humphrey, his successor, walked Lupien, but forced Hoye to pop out and got Tully on a grounder, first-baseman unassisted. Two hits...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: How the Crimson Beat Yale Yesterday | 6/22/1939 | See Source »

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