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Word: aristocratic (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week Denver got what it has wanted for 75 years when Chicago, Bur- lington & Quincy announced that after June11, it would extend the schedule of its crack Chicago-Denver Aristocrat through the Moffat Tunnel over the Dotsero Cut-off to Salt Lake City and over the Western Pacific to San Francisco...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Rails & Roads | 2/12/1934 | See Source »

...best apprentices too. Under Abbott Lawrence Lowell, scion of a rich and ancient Boston family, it could be argued that Harvard had become a "rich man's college." James Conant was born in unfashionable Dorchester, Mass., son of a photo-engraver. He has made himself an intellectual aristocrat. Under him Harvard's favored sons will be, beyond argument, the rich in brains...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Chemist at Cambridge | 2/5/1934 | See Source »

...Hippolytns. Professor Sterlsky played the part of a Cossack. Fear has two main plot themes: 1) Ivan Borodin's efforts to deal with his political superiors, who appoint incompetents to assist him and interfere with his scientific researches; 2) the sad case of Amalya, a withered female aristocrat. Borodin makes Amalya his housekeeper while officials appoint her ignorant daughter-in-law his assistant. This coincidence brings together Amalya and her Communist son. At the end of the play, the son has lost his membership in the Party and, with old Amalya, sets off to become a mendicant. The part...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: Fear at Vassar | 1/22/1934 | See Source »

Other books: The Revolutionary Spirit in France and in America at the Close of the Eighteenth Century, A Panorama of Contemporary French Literature, Franklin: The Apostle of Modern Times, Washington: Republican Aristocrat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Benny Bache | 10/9/1933 | See Source »

Double Door (by Elizabeth McFadden; Potter & Haight, producers). Victoria Van Bret (Mary Morris, malevolent Abbie in Desire Under the Elms}, a tyrannous New York aristocrat of the celluloid collar era, dominates her half-brother Rip and her younger sister Caroline with an insane despotism. When Anne Darrow (Aleta Freel of Both Your Houses}, Rip's nurse during an attack of pneumonia, is about to marry the Van Bret scion, Victoria forbids organ music, refuses to attend ' the ceremony, locks up the wedding presents and denies the bride the Van Bret pearls which are by will...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Oct. 2, 1933 | 10/2/1933 | See Source »

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