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Word: allen (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Total sales to date: 1,300,000. Hervey Allen's Anthony Adverse has sold more than 1,000,000 copies since it appeared in June...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Gone Back | 4/5/1937 | See Source »

Harvard will be one of the nine colleges which will compete in the Eastern Intercollegiate Chin Golf Championship Tournament to be held tomorrow evening at 6:15 in studio number 1 of WOR at New York. John L. Allen '39 will wear the colors of the Crimson in an attempt to win a three-foot-high silver...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harvard to Be Represented In Chin Golf Championship | 4/2/1937 | See Source »

...Federal Theatre is now offering "The Deluge", a static study of character by Frank Allen, announced by the lights out in front as a "sardonic comedy drama". A minor calamity visits a city on the Mississippi, and the responses made to the stress by ten assorted characters comprise the substance of the piece...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Playgoer | 3/30/1937 | See Source »

...much of the profit of this ingenious turn of affairs is wasted. There is litle interest to be derived from putting characters through revealing paces if the characters are not intrinsically interesting. Mr. Allen's creations are rather shadowy, tedious things. One character out of the ten, however, redeems the play, and demonstrates that the author can create, at least within narrow limits. This is a jovial Irish lawyer named O'Neill, who admits that he has plenty of brains but no character, and is therefore no good. He is altogether of the Sidney Carton pattern, except that...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Playgoer | 3/30/1937 | See Source »

...Junior Head Usher Allen will select 120 Juniors as ushers for the Baccalaureate Sermon, the Senior Spread, and the luncheons, suppers, and dancing in the various Houses. The Junior Ushers will also assist in the parade of graduates and undergraduates to the Stadium on Class...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: IVY ORATORS COMPETE BEGINNING THIS WEEK | 3/25/1937 | See Source »

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