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Word: againe (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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*With a very British sense of humor. When a distinguished bore came to lunch and was in full drone, Sir William Nicholson would give a signal, whereupon the whole family would jump up, dash madly around the table, and plump down again in their seats as if nothing had happened...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Beginning with Billiards | 12/13/1948 | See Source »

As playwriting, Red Gloves again reveals Sartre's ability to melodramatize ideas, to make a story suddenly flash with "theater" or a speech with intensity. But Red Gloves takes a good half of the evening to become interesting, and never becomes impressive. Between the two extremes of which Sartre...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: New Play in Manhattan, Dec. 13, 1948 | 12/13/1948 | See Source »

High weights he had to carry and high taxes his owner had to pay (as much as 80% of the purses) cut Shannon down to three or four select races a year. Riddle became so fond of him that he turned down offer after offer for the horse. Last year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: The Race That Wasn't | 12/13/1948 | See Source »

To the caustic Santayana, Charles Townsend Copeland was a mere "elocutionist" who provided a "spiritual debauch [for] many well-disposed waifs at Harvard." Copey's well-disposed waifs felt otherwise. A shrunken little man, with an actor's sense of staging, he brought literature to life for thousands...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: The Shining Faces | 12/13/1948 | See Source »

Last week Ned Ohrbach stepped out in new company: he opened a store on the "Miracle Mile" of Los Angeles' snazzy Wilshire Boulevard (in Prudential's big new building). To strike a spark, he had stocked the store with cotton dresses at $1, woolen dresses at $3.95, nylons...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RETAIL TRADE: Cash & Hurry | 12/13/1948 | See Source »

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