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Word: 16th (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Prosecutor Austin C. Hall, with a Scotland Yard detective at one elbow and an expert on 16th Century British law at the other, seemed to have thoroughly deflated the historical pretense behind the Drake case when his initial address concluded: "Every representation of the defendants was false, and they knew...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Dupes & Drake | 12/2/1935 | See Source »

...facts." "Dead End," by Sidney Kingsley of "Men in White" renown, opened recently and has been hailed as a masterful drama of New York life and its social problems. Priestley's "Eden End" is a comedy which is funny, but not quite uproariously so. "The Night of January 16th" is chiefly remarkable in that it allows a jury selected from the audience to settle its little murder mystery. Osgood Perkins" excellent comic work makes "On Stage" better than its manuscript. "Personal Appearance" presents Miss Gladys George as a big star with some very amusing lines and situations. "Pride and Prejudice...

Author: By S. M. B., | Title: The Crimson Playgoer | 11/9/1935 | See Source »

...voted to include Auld Lang Syne and the famed Irish Londonderry Air for hymns beginning It singeth low in every heart and Above the hills of time the Cross is gleaming. The broad, soaring principal theme of Jan Sibelius' tone poem Finlandia has been reharmonized, paired with a 16th Century lyric...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Hymns for 8,000,000 | 10/14/1935 | See Source »

Primitives of the Catalonian and Aragonese Schools were there, along with excellent examples of 15th and 16th Century anonymous religious paintings. But the reputation of Spain as an art centre rests entirely on the work of three great painters: Diego Rodriguez de Silva y Velazquez, Domenico Theotocopuli (El Greco), Francisco Jose de Goya y Lucientes. Of the three, Velazquez was of Portuguese descent and Theotocopuli a Greek, which leaves the glory of Spanish art to just one thoroughgoing Spaniard, Goya...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Spaniards in Brooklyn | 9/30/1935 | See Source »

Instead, on the 14th, Emery misplayed a recovery from sand and took 4 to Little's 3. On the 15th, Little had a birdie 3 to Emery's 5. At the 16th, with Emery dormie, Little hit two prodigious wood shots to a green 512 yd. away, sank his putt for an eagle, and walked over to shake hands...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Little Slam | 9/23/1935 | See Source »

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