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Word: allan (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...reason, except that some future age may star a Jeanette MacDonald in a film of the war. Cast opposite Allan Jones, a spy for the French Army with whom she inconveniently but most romantically falls in love, in appropriate Spanish milien, she sings and dances her way to a victory for Wellington and the liberation of Spain. Other good performances are turned in by Warren William and Douglas Dumbrille as opposing members of the military profession. Yet Jeanette is the sole raison d'etre of the picture, and as a good performance of hers it deserves attention...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: AT THE UNIVERSITY | 2/11/1938 | See Source »

...point out his anatomical inaccuracies: his horned owl represented with three rather than two toes forward. They criticize his romantic cloud effects. They pointedly praise the correctness of his contemporaries, men primarily ornithologists like American Museum's Francis Lee Jaques. British Columbia's crack rifle shot Major Allan Brooks, Audubon Societies' youthful Roger Tory Peterson (Field Guide to the Birds), and the late brilliant Louis Agassiz Fuertes. But sportsmen and some collectors like the easy naturalism of Brasher's duck pictures, the spirit of his long-shanked road runner, the dash of his bald eagle. Accordingly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Animals: Brasher's Birds | 1/31/1938 | See Source »

...foot-three, a native of California. For 16 years he taught at Yale, a good part of that time as professor of English. He is much younger than Smith's William Allan Neilson and Vassar's Henry Noble McCracken, who have learned to delight their girls with clowning...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Marine to President | 12/15/1937 | See Source »

Last week the remaining two Babes in the Woods, Allan Price Kirby, son of one of the founders of F. W. Woolworth Co., and Robert Young, onetime partner of Frank Kolbe in Young, Kolbe & Co., were reticent about Mr. Kolbe's departure. All they would say was that part of Mr. Kolbe's share in the syndicate had been bought by Mrs. Young, who is the sister of Painter Georgia O'Keeffe, the remainder by a lawyer "for the personal holding com-pany of an undisclosed individual." While Wall Street ears tingled to talk that this unknown...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Babe Out | 11/29/1937 | See Source »

Charles D. Aldrich '40, Wollaston; Josef Alexander '38, Brighton; Gordon B. Allan '38, W. Medford; Dion J. J. Archen '40, Lynn; Frederic S. Armstrong, Jr. '39, Weymouth; Leon W. Baldwin '40, Somerville; Edmund W. Hanas '39, Holyoke; Bernard Barber '39, Cambridge; Clarence H. Barber '40, Arlington; Abraham N. Barger '39, Greenfield; David S. Berkowitz '38, South Boston; Christoph F. W. Berliner '40, Weston; Melvin B. Black '40, Roxbury; Edward B. Blackman '38, Roxbury...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: $34,300 IN PRIZES GOES TO 131 MASS. UNDERGRADUATES | 11/23/1937 | See Source »

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