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Word: aproned (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...disgraces his family. He sneers openly at good breeding, abuses his visitors because, unlike himself, they failed to blossom from the gutter. The next night the tables are turned. When Big Hearted Herbert brings his best customer & wife to dine pretty Mrs. Kalness (Elisabeth Risclon ) is in a kitchen apron, dishing out an Irish stew. Her husband is "a plain man,'' she proudly says, and invites her guests to "set." Big Hearted Herbert is an obvious, unimportant, moderately amusing three-act caricature in which J. C. Nugent, father of Cinema-Director Elliot Nugent, turns himself into the spitting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Jan. 15, 1934 | 1/15/1934 | See Source »

Into old First Baptist Church at Easton, Md. one night last week crowded 600 fervent Baptists for the wind-up of Rev. Dr. C. Thomas Brookshire's ten-day campaign. Evangelist Brookshire retired to put on rubber boots, rubber apron for the baptismal service. His pulpit was moved aside. A section of flooring was taken up to expose a waist-deep tank of water. Evangelist Brookshire stepped in. A-a-a-men! A-a-a-men! cried the congregation. Two girls, 12 and 16, approached. Praying loudly, he helped them down, doused them in the tank. Then followed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Drowned Baptist | 12/18/1933 | See Source »

Attached to the steamer's stern is an enormous tarpaulin apron criss-crossed by wooden laths, called a drag-sail. When the steamer is at rest, or barely making headway, the drag-sail trails below the surface. There it lies while the plane taxies up to the steamer's stern. As soon as the plane is in position, the Westphalen picks up speed, with the plane taxiing after her. The towing force lifts the drag-sail to the surface where it smooths the water, makes a floor for the plane. Winches are brought into play and presently plane...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Aeronautics: Seadrome | 11/20/1933 | See Source »

...home. The friend whom the discovery should have cured dies. A Berlin physician tells the doctor that his work has been wasted. When the wife returns to bid her husband good-bye she chooses, like Candida, to remain with the man who needs her most. slips on her laboratory apron again. Actor Abel and Actress Christians, a German importation, perform with intelligence and force but their lines do not convince. Spring in Autumn (by G. Martinez...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Nov. 6, 1933 | 11/6/1933 | See Source »

...Ephraim Brown was home, Chog's Cove soaking in through his pores. And here, before him was Susannah, with a small basket of apples on her arm, "a solid simple woman in an old dress and a soiled apron, a woman two thousand miles from a dark girl at Pamilco, a woman all infinity from Celestine" at New Orleans. "You could no more compare Celestine to her than you could a glass of absinthe to a good field." Her large red mouth was slightly open. He said, "It's me." She said, "Aiyes...

Author: By J. M., | Title: The Crimson Bookshelf | 10/25/1933 | See Source »

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