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Word: archness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Bradley, who graduated from Dartmouth in 1928, took his M. Arch, at Harvard in 1933 and was awarded the Julia Amory Appleton Travelling Fellowship for 1935. Cerny, graduate of Minnesota in '32 took his M. Arch, at Harvard in 1933 and was awarded the Nelson Robinson Jr. Travelling Fellowship...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Water Color Sketches On Exhibit in Robinson Hall | 12/11/1936 | See Source »

Twenty minutes before the curtain rose last Saturday night on his current production "Tonight at 8.30", Noel Coward, arch-wit and epigrammatist of the English and American stages, was made an honorary member of the Advisory Board of the Harvard Dramatic Club, backstage at the National Theatre in New York...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Noel Coward Made Honorary Member Of Dramatic Club; Won't Talk of King | 12/8/1936 | See Source »

Despite its fame among naturalists, Ward's is almost unknown to laymen, even in Rochester, where it was once a landmark with two whale bones forming an arch at the entrance. Last week a newshawk queried ten policemen and two hotel clerks without finding one who knew where Ward's was. Ward officials like to tell the story of an Australian scientist who registered at a Rochester hotel, asked how to proceed to Ward's. The clerk confessed ignorance. "Young man," the visitor bellowed indignantly, "I've come all the way from Australia and there...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Ward's | 12/7/1936 | See Source »

Forbidden Melody (book & lyrics by Otto Harbach; music by Sigmund Romberg; Kirkland & Grisman, producers) is a spavined specimen of that old theatrical wheelhorse, the operetta. Laid in a complicated Balkan kingdom, it tries to be sentimental, succeeds only in being arch. It contains a surprise, Comedienne Ruth Weston singing. Carl Brisson, a large, broad-faced Dane who was once a pugilist, accomplishes both song and dance, has such fidgety legs that he seems to be dancing even when he is not supposed to. Brightest spots are the singing of such amiable Romberg tunes as "No Use Pretending" and "Blame...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: New Plays in Manhattan: Nov. 16, 1936 | 11/16/1936 | See Source »

Chicago Time. Last March Chicago's Democratic Kelly-Nash machine put Chicago on Eastern Standard Time all year round. Biggest backer of the change was arch-Republican Colonel Robert R. McCormick who wanted to get an hour's more news every day for his morning Tribune, take away an hour's news from his rival, Colonel Frank Knox's afternoon News. This week Chicagoans were given an opportunity not of settling the question but making their preferences known by an advisory referendum on three questions 1) Shall Chicago have Eastern Time (daylight saving all year round...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Election Results: Side Issues | 11/9/1936 | See Source »

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