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Word: aire (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...scenes of slap-stick that make modern movie comedy look like a first-class funeral. The first includes Buster Keaton, Alice Faye, an unnamed villain, and an apparently limitless supply of creamy custard pies. There is a certain emotional release about a custard pie flying through the air destined for some carefully made-up face. It is a shame that the idea has been abandoned, for many modern pictures might be livened up immeasurably with the sudden appearance of a custard pic in flight. The second scene involves the Keystone cops and a 1913 Ford. The glorious, lusty pantomime...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: * The Moviegoer * | 10/20/1939 | See Source »

Mother Advocate is laying plans to camouflage its building against "air raid, gas attack, and snow storm," Hudson Ansley '41, staff artist and camouflager, revealed last night...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CAMOUFLAGING OF ADVOCATE PLANNED BY STAFF ARTIST | 10/19/1939 | See Source »

Leverett's frequent fumbles were the chief bar preventing them from running up a high score, but their defense was air-tight. Edmunds shone in the backfield, while Ben Wilcox, tackle, and the two ends, Jack Hughes and Dick Dawes, were outstanding...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BUNNIES BEAT GREEN DORMITORY TEAM, 19-0 | 10/17/1939 | See Source »

...British Admiralty and Air Ministry admitted casualties aboard the 9,100-ton Southampton, the cruiser Edinburgh and the destroyer Mohawk, and said an admiral's barge and a light tender were sunk by the Nazi bombs...

Author: By The ASSOCIATED Press, | Title: Over the Wire | 10/17/1939 | See Source »

...Nazi air-raiders--12 or 14 Heinkels and Dorniers--struck in a bold attempt to bomb Britain's Rosyth naval base and the huge bridge over the Firth of Forth nine miles inland from Edinburgh...

Author: By The ASSOCIATED Press, | Title: Over the Wire | 10/17/1939 | See Source »

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