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Word: airings (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...striving milieu, minus Claridge's and cabriolets. The stolid Slav does not think so, plods off alone. These platitudinous doings are described as "the first play to come out of Soviet Russia." Actor Leonid Snegov, onetime member of the Moscow Art Theatre, gave an occasionally trenchant air to the piece. The play lasted six days...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: New Play in Manhattan: May 20, 1929 | 5/20/1929 | See Source »

...simply, lifts it. Sometimes he does not lift it much higher than his knees. In this case he puts it down, bows sadly to the audience. But if he succeeds in raising it, he holds it im mobile, and proudly, through his big nose, sniffs the stale air...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Strong-Men | 5/13/1929 | See Source »

Engaged. James Cash Penney Jr. of White Plains, air amateur, son of the chain store tycoon, Prohibition patron and Hoover intimate (TIME, Jan. 28); to a Miss Elinor Snyder of Manhattan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: May 13, 1929 | 5/13/1929 | See Source »

...girls have been selected to skip in the choruses. Other St. Louisans are designing scenery, working backstage. Famed headliners-Mary Eaton, Leon Errol, Lulu McConnell-have already accepted contracts for the summer season. Like the city's successful Municipal Opera Company, the theatre will be in the open air, under a dome of boughs. Top price: $2.50. Life membership in the Society (entitling to 20% price reduction): $25. These frolics al fresco are counted on to stimulate theatre-unconscious St. Louisans so that next winter a program of more serious dramatics may be given with profit. Plays of John...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: In St. Louis | 5/13/1929 | See Source »

Like twelve fat vegetables in a soup plate, twelve great balloons nestled in Pitt Stadium at Pittsburgh. The evening light was fading as the first bag, piloted by W. A. Klikoff and Pete Lawson representing Aircraft Development Corp., slowly rose into the air and, once above the rim of the stadium, swam rapidly away in a brisk westerly wind. One after another the rest of the bags rose and floated away...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AERONAUTICS: Floaters | 5/13/1929 | See Source »

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