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Word: agee (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Approaching the awkward age, Shirley is not quite so dewy as she used to be. Paced by the dark veteran, Bill Robinson, through two simple tap routines, one to a pleasing tune called Toy Trumpet, she seems something more than a doll, something less than a little girl. Her singing, almost free now of the lilting lisp that has three times made her No. 1 Oh-&-Ah cinema champion (TIME, Jan. 3), sounds much like that of any little Sunday-morning radio aspirant...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Mar. 21, 1938 | 3/21/1938 | See Source »

Mexico is backward and primitive, but Mexican Chavez is the most futuristically minded of contemporary musicians. He has a firm faith that the development of electrically controlled instruments will bring about a musical golden age. In a recent book,* he predicted the invention of vast music-creating engines, envisioned a musical art in which present-day musical instruments and "interpretive" musicians would no longer be necessary. What this music of the future would sound like, and why anyone should want to create it or listen to it, Prophet Chavez left to his readers' imagination...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Mexican Maestro | 3/21/1938 | See Source »

...Pasquier Chronicles contains incidents and implications that Galsworthy would not have touched with a ten-foot pole, it also contains ironic flashes equally foreign to the Englishman. Papa Pasquier, with his tempers, girls and moralizing lectures, studying to be a doctor in his middle age, buying automobiles that he cannot drive or pay for, lecturing strangers for their impoliteness in yawning in public, messing up the affairs of his whole family without an instant's remorse, is a pompous, ridiculous, formidable figure. "Ah - fine weather," says Papa Pasquier, as he steps outdoors, "or at least pretty good." Although Author...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Gallic Galsworthy | 3/21/1938 | See Source »

MOGUK, BURMA, Dec. 22 (By Pony Express to London)--On the banks of the Irrawaddy river, in Upper Burma, the American Southeast Asiatic Expedition has found a prehistoric link between two of Asia's most ancient stone age cultures...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HARVARD EXPEDITION FINDS PREHISTORIC FOSSIL LINKS | 3/21/1938 | See Source »

Under the leadership of Dr. Hallam L. Movius '02 and Dr. Hellmut de Terra the expedition has discovered extinct fossils of the Himalayan ice age--a buffalo, a hippopotamus, and elephants...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HARVARD EXPEDITION FINDS PREHISTORIC FOSSIL LINKS | 3/21/1938 | See Source »

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