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Word: besse (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Beautifully costumed, cleverly staged, its acts varied from acrobatics to ballet, from comic capers to spinning solos. It had no glittering star like Hollywood's Sonja Henie. But skating fans last week were ready to adopt new ice gods: Wisconsin's piquant Bess Ehrhardt and dashing Roy Shipstad (the "human top"); Adagio Specialists Idi Papez and Karl Zwack of Vienna (onetime European pair champions) ; Brooklyn-born Evelyn Chandler, who turns nine Arabian cartwheels without touching hands to ice; little Harris Legg, who takes a breath-taking leap over a lineup of eleven barrels and as a giant snowman...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: On Ice | 12/18/1939 | See Source »

Besides Miss Todd, the following Radcliffe girls will be in the cast tonight: Claire Rabinowitz '42 as "Martha Webster"; Barbara Scherer '42 as "Bess Shelling"; Sophie Reagan '42 as "Katherine Driscoll"; and Barbara Gatchell '43 as "Julia Blake...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "Bury the Dead" to Be Revived In Sanders This Evening at 8:30 | 12/5/1939 | See Source »

...BESS HEEB Springfield, Ohio...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Apr. 3, 1939 | 4/3/1939 | See Source »

From research on whether Queen Bess was virgin...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Contributions | 2/9/1939 | See Source »

...foreign policy to date and won it, 345-to-138, after plainly intimating to the House that what must now be expected is an almost unlimited extension of Japanese influence in East Asia and of German influence in East Europe. The shades of British Imperialists from Good Queen Bess to Rudyard Kipling must have paled perceptively. But an optimist to pessimists, and others, Neville Chamberlain said: "China cannot be developed into a real market without the influx of a great deal of capital, and the fact that so much capital is being destroyed during the war means that even more...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Business of Government | 11/14/1938 | See Source »

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