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Word: barred (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...ship sails out of harbor bound for--no one seems to know, just "Outward Bound." Passengers gather in the bar and try to figure it all out. By the third act the ship has reached its destination, and they all know. With this fantastic idea as a frame-work, Sutton Vane wrote a play that hit the jack-pot on Broadway a decade or so ago. Recently William A. Brady has revived the play and it has hit the jack-pot again...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Playgoer | 10/24/1939 | See Source »

Author Asch calls Judas "Judah IshKiriot," as he calls others by their Hebrew names: Rabbi Yeshua ben Joseph (Jesus), Miriam of Migdal (Mary Magdalene), Simon bar Jonah (Peter). It is Author Asch's thesis (as it has been of some Christian scholars) that Judas was so impatient for the salvation of mankind-"My soul is famished for the redemption," he said-that he betrayed Jesus to hurry the inevitable...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: The Nazarene | 10/23/1939 | See Source »

...tied up with Greeley's KFKA, a radio station in somewhat the same situation. He caught ranchers at breakfast daily in seven States with three-quarters of an hour of weather, livestock & feed prices, good humor, a singing cowboy and a guitar-twanging cowgirl with Bar X names (Claude Redman, Esther Gibson), plenty of come-ons for the Greeley Cash Auction Market. He put his auction pit on the air twice a week, took microphones out on the range for farm sales, saw to it that the folks who turned out were not only entertained but fed ("Free Barbecue...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Prairie Showman | 10/23/1939 | See Source »

...Story has formed a committee of Big Names, from Hugh Walpole to A. P. Herbert, has turned her basement into a rallying place for artists, patrons, critics, buyers, the art public. Air raids need not overly annoy visitors, for the British Art Centre has full club facilities, including a bar and easy chairs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Hub's Hub's Hub | 10/23/1939 | See Source »

That was the beginning of a deal. While the airlines' lawyers were arguing before the CAA, opponents Frye and Kratz went hangar-flying over drinks in a nearby bar, became fast friends. A few weeks ago they met again on a New Mexico dude ranch at a meeting of Conquistadores del Cielo (Conquerors of the Sky), an airline executives' organization for making hoopla in ten-gallon hats and hair pants (see cut). Over the poker table where they played with steady hand for fat stakes, and on horseback trips where they rode for saddle-galls, the deal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CARRIERS: Dudes' Deal | 10/23/1939 | See Source »

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