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Word: awayed (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Ethel Merman, if she is a little less than kin to Du Barry, she is more than kind-makes her, in fact, the most likable royal trollop that ever pranced behind footlights. More of an 18th-Century tomboy than a glamor girl, Merman booms and torches away in her train-announcer's contralto, jouncing her personality all over the stage, giving the King the oo-la-lahr, then (in a glorious whirlwind finish) snapping back to Broadway to sing Friendship and Katie Went to Haiti...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Musical in Manhattan: Dec. 18, 1939 | 12/18/1939 | See Source »

...Into the office of the dean of men irately marched Madison's Police Chief William H. McCormick. Chief McCormick threatened to arrest the members of Sigma Nu, Chi Psi and Alpha Delta Phi en masse. His complaint: Sigma Nus, Chi Psis and Alpha Delts had taken to whiling away evenings by shouting obscene names at one another. Worse, a fraternity man was caught in the act of painting on the sidewalk in front of the Alpha Epsilon Phi sorority house: "Poo on A E Phoo...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Greeks' Week | 12/18/1939 | See Source »

...known then, as now, as the Cherry Hill prison. One night last week, over Philadelphia's KYW, the inmates of 110-year-old Cherry Hill staged their Christmas musicale. Sixteen pent-up voices serenaded The Little Man Who Wasn't There; assorted whistlers, fiddlers, ladybug plunkers whanged away at heart strings beyond the walls. But the tune that dampened the eyes of Warden Herbert ("Cap") Smith and beefy Deputy Tom Meikrantz was a Chinese prisoner's song, written and sung in quavery, North China dialect by Canton-born William Yun. (Yun was jailed six weeks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Carols at Cherry Hill | 12/18/1939 | See Source »

...mistake that I am away from my wife . . . (his tenor went...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Carols at Cherry Hill | 12/18/1939 | See Source »

Just as at opening of opera or cinema, news photographers whanged away to the giddy glare of flash bulbs. They caught tycoonery (see cuts), failed only to re-record the serious things which the tycoons had come for. During their sessions they...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TYCOONS: In Congress Assembled | 12/18/1939 | See Source »

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