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Word: pointedness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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Seven Faces (Fox). As a short story Richard Connell's "A Friend of Napoleon" was awarded several prizes by juries who admired its light irony and neat construction. As a talking picture the pointed anecdote has been turned into a pointless but mechanically interesting vaudeville act for Paul Muni. He...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures Nov. 25, 1929 | 11/25/1929 | See Source »

At Harvard, especially, is the long, sinister finger of suspicion pointed, for a car bearing a Massachusetts license was seen to drive off after several men allegedly loaded the vehicle with a large, bulky parcel which they carried out of the building in which the each singles are located. Princeton...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harvard, Yale and Princeton Fall Suspect to Theft of Eli Fence--One Indefinite Clue Points to Harvard Students | 11/20/1929 | See Source »

At Harvard yesterday, editors of the CRIMSON sought, without success to discover whether any group of undergraduates in the University could be connected with the theft. It was pointed out to them several times in the course of their investigation, that a Massachusetts 22-cense could hardly be considered proof...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harvard, Yale and Princeton Fall Suspect to Theft of Eli Fence--One Indefinite Clue Points to Harvard Students | 11/20/1929 | See Source »

Adam Walsh, line coach, gave the linesmen a brief session in charging and blocking practice. He pointed out that Saturday's game was to be decided by the performance staged by the two opposing lines, as both teams have excellent backfields. Coach Walsh also told his men that he expected...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: YALE HAS HARD SCRIMMAGE | 11/20/1929 | See Source »

At once arose a judicial question: What was the value of the "smell" testimony of a Senator who knows nothing about liquor from the standpoint of personal imbibation? Does experience as a chemist qualify him as an expert on alcoholic odors? It was pointed out on the Senate floor that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PROHIBITION: Silver Flasks | 11/18/1929 | See Source »

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