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Word: barbee (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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¶ Mario Chamlee, mechanically inclined, examined garages as well as houses, found what he wanted in Highland Park. Friends heard he was going to build himself an airplane. Marouf will be repeated at Ravinia for Tenor Chamlee who recently scored a successful Paris debut in that opera. Another Highland Parker...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Ravinia | 7/1/1929 | See Source »

Something about a Barbe Bleu fires the emotions of Frenchmen. Men marry women and kill them for their wealth in every land; but in France a Barbe Bleu is news. Last week was bluebeard week at Marseilles, the chief and most casually immoral port city of France, and a famed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Bluebeard Week | 7/16/1928 | See Source »

Then from Algiers came sailing toward Marseilles, last week, another Barbe Blue, with 18 women to his discredit. He was 60, and named Jerome Drat. Through some occult divination the Marseilles poor unequalled for viciousness in all France, decided that the two Barbe Bleus were the same man under different...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Bluebeard Week | 7/16/1928 | See Source »

The police, knowing their mob, avoided trouble by debarking Algeria's Barbe Bleu at the island in the harbor of Marseilles on which stands the Chateau d'If, made famed by Duma's Monte Cristo.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Bluebeard Week | 7/16/1928 | See Source »

To Deputy Jacques Duclos, Communist leader, the law awarded six sentences totaling 30 years and six fines totaling 18,000 francs ($540); to Deputy Andre Marty, famed Red, the law gave ten years in jail and a fine of 6,000 francs ($180); René Bellenger and Henri Barbe received...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Mutiny Quelled | 10/10/1927 | See Source »

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