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Word: alle (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Bert Lahr is at his best when he goes royal, wrinkling his sub-Bourbon nose and speaking French as though afraid it might bounce back and hit him. As for Ethel Merman, if she is a little less than kin to Du Barry, she is more than kind-makes her...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Musical in Manhattan: Dec. 18, 1939 | 12/18/1939 | See Source »

With Louisiana in an uproar and Federal investigators hastening down from Washington, the Item abandoned Huey's followers to their fate. Suddenly the Item came out with an editorial platform calling for punishment of "all who have stolen from State and Federal Governments," rigid State economy, honest elections. Next...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Contemptuous Item | 12/18/1939 | See Source »

Glittering in a gold-sequined gown, her hair swept up, her feet in spun-glass slippers, Marva Trotter Louis, wife of Heavyweight Boxing Champion Joe Louis, officiated at the coronation of St. Louis' Negro society king and queen. Introduced as "leader of Chicago society . . . America's premier lady...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Dec. 18, 1939 | 12/18/1939 | See Source »

When it was all over, weary-looking Rachmaninoff was glad to get back to his Manhattan apartment, where he could finger his piano again undisturbed, smoke his constant de-nicotinized cigarets in peace.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Rachmaninoff | 12/18/1939 | See Source »

All this good work was promptly undone last week by developments at University of Wisconsin. Into the office of the dean of men irately marched Madison's Police Chief William H. McCormick. Chief McCormick threatened to arrest the members of Sigma Nu, Chi Psi and Alpha Delta Phi en...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Greeks' Week | 12/18/1939 | See Source »

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