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Word: sneaking (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...born 57 years ago in Chesterfield, N. H. At Amherst College he studied science, was called "Doc" and chosen class president. Sabrina, Amherst's famed 350-lb. "goddess" statue, was stolen from the class of '93 for the '94 class dinner. Afterwards, "Doc" Stone helped sneak Sabrina to the barn of Herman C. Harvey, back in Chesterfield, there to hide her away under the floor from Calvin Coolidge's class. Agnes Harvey, Mr. Harvey's daughter, was a discreet girl. She could keep the secret of Sabrina. "Doc" Stone married...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JUDICIARY: Supreme Matters | 5/6/1929 | See Source »

...Gangster is the autobiography of a gangster adapted from a serial in the Saturday Evening Post. Beer-drinking as a baby, sneak-thieving as a schoolboy, pool-playing, loafing, robbing, killing?such things, say numerous subtitles, land young men in the jug. In spite of the monotonous effort of the script to point a moral. Director Raoul Walsh has made this rather gentle document of crook life effective by little niceties?the ward-heeler spitting in the hand, extended for a friendly shake, of the gangster who taught his son bad ways; the prisoner in the visiting room who wants...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures Nov. 5, 1928 | 11/5/1928 | See Source »

...some country people and went on being a governess. Lovers came to her again and she accepted them: Albert, who had loved her long ago; Richard, who thought that she was "too good for him," slept with her friend and committed suicide. Her son grew up to be a sneak-thief; to have him with her she rented furnished rooms and started to give lessons. For one of the girls who attended her classes, Theresa came to possess a deep and sacrificial love; it appeared that she was to marry the girl's father but when everything had been...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Chronicle | 10/8/1928 | See Source »

...late great, hard Frank Andrew Munsey (1854-1925), amalgamator of newspapers, had a strict rule in all his editorial offices that there should be NO SMOKING. This caused many reporters to sneak out of sight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: I Loathe | 10/1/1928 | See Source »

...greatest variety of beasts are on the open plains where the enemy-beasts cannot sneak up so easily unnoticed. From a blind on the edge of a water hole, the Johnsons watched, photographed. Herds of oryx, the double-horned unicorn, wilde-beeste, kongari, eland, impalla, buffalo, zebra, came in turns to drink. Also the rare okapi. They respect and stand aside for the conceited and preening ostrich of the deadly kick. Zebra snap and fight among themselves continuously. Giraffes, "the creatures God forgot," wander about nervously nibbling at the trees too timid even to drink. Defenseless against his fatal leap...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NON-FICTION: Animals | 3/19/1928 | See Source »

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