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Word: agee (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...clear across the runways of Rome's Ciampino airport last week came the brassy Dixieland chatter of Muskrat Ramble, swung by "The Roman New Orleans Band." Teen-age Italian hepcats, backed by placards of "Welcome Louie," were beating out a solid welcome for American Jazz Potentate Louis ("Satchmo") Armstrong and his All-Stars.* On the last lap of his first grand European tour since 1935, Satchmo had found solid welcomes and solid houses wherever he landed. In Stockholm, 40,000 fans welcomed him at the airport; thousands waited in line all night to get tickets for his concert. Stockholm...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Welcome | 11/7/1949 | See Source »

...china, menus and bills of lading that Rathbone had interspersed among the river canvases, Showman Rathbone had a commonsense reply: "The first job is to get the people into our museums. The future of art belongs to them and not to the recherche group of the last century. The age of the private patron is gone, and the mass support required to take its place must be preceded by mass appreciation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: A Century of the River | 11/7/1949 | See Source »

...Women from the Stone Age to the Mink Age are acutely conscious of money. Most of their waking hours are spent in thinking about it, in planning how they can use it so that it will purchase the most and still leave them a little something for the savings bank ... or the sugar jar on the pantry shelf...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BANKING: The Women | 11/7/1949 | See Source »

...Previously the Council had been bossed by cliques of men ranging in age from 40 to 70," Jausen asserted. These older men had made up an important part of the council membership, he said...

Author: By Edward J. Ottenheimer jr., | Title: HYRC Claims It Dominates State Young GOP Council | 11/7/1949 | See Source »

Though "The Father" is a modern drama regardless of its age, (it was first produced in 1887), certain elements in the dialogue date it somewhat. One of these is Strindberg's preoccupation with scientific discoveries, particularly new theories in eugenics and pre-Freudian psychology, and he makes his characters use these as motivations for their actions. However, where O'Neill's characters are products of the laboratory and only clinically interesting, Strindberg's are stimulating to both the emotions and the intellect...

Author: By George A. Leiper, | Title: THE PLAYGOER | 11/7/1949 | See Source »

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