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Word: allen (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...North Dakota's Nye (Progressive) had declared against the debenture plan. Last week, under threats of political reprisals from his state, he said he would now support it. He added lamely a hope that it would never be used. "The People." The new Kansas Senator, Henry Justin Allen, made his first speech in the Senate, supporting the President's opposition to debentures. When he said, "the people who sent me here-!" a time-honored congressional cliche, there were grins on the Democratic side, snickers in the gallery. As everyone but the Senator recalled, the "people" who sent Senator...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HUSBANDRY: Even Steven | 5/13/1929 | See Source »

...Little Show. Like an animated issue of such smart charts as Vanity Fair and The New Yorker is this revue, gathered by clever Manhattanites from the fancies, satires, slap-sticks of their native city. Merry, squint-eyed Fred Allen, whose voice sounds as though it ran over a ratchet, is chief wisecracker. Elongated Clifton Webb does a variety of turns, from elegant ballroom maneuvers to a parody of the John Erskine school of historical fiction. At one point, dressed as a Carthaginian warrior, he keeps languidly remarking: "Oh nuts!" It was in the best interests of mirth to revive George...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: May 13, 1929 | 5/13/1929 | See Source »

...structure will be in the Georgian style, according to the announcement of Robeson Bailey '29, retiring president of the Advocate, and it will be in harmony with the general architecture of the University. A plaque of the Advocate Pegasus done by Frederick Allen, the well-known sculptor who did the five pediments of the New York Country Courthouse, was exhibited at the dinner. The new sanctum will be designed to accord with this reinterpretation of the Advocate symbol...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PEGASUS PLANS TO ERECT NEW STALL IN GEORGIAN STYLE | 5/13/1929 | See Source »

HARVARD 1932. DARTMOUTH 1932 Mays, 2b. 2b., Barber Sprague, c.f. r.f, Morton Lupien, r.f. l.f., Burch Wood, s.s. c.f., Hawkes Delano. l.f. 1b., Kramer Fincke, 1b. 3b., Pipe Vogel, 3b. s.s., Junkins Sheldon, c. c., Allen, or Britten Devens, p. p., Schneider...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 1932 NINE ENGAGES PAPOOSES | 5/11/1929 | See Source »

Despite the keen competition, Andover hopes to retain its title with the aid of Captain Houston in the discus, shot, and javelin; Moore in the jumps; Osborne in the dashes, and Allen and Pitkin in the hurdles...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SCHOOLS TO BATTLE IN STADIUM MEET | 5/8/1929 | See Source »

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