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Word: betta (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...production is wonderful--fast and beautiful and marvelously ingenious. And so is the supporting cast, especially Myron McCormick as Luther and Betta St. John as Liat. And so is Ezio Pinza, whose voice is such a miracle that it probably does not matter that the words he lavishes it on cannot be understood...

Author: By Joel Raphaelson, | Title: The Playgoer | 3/17/1949 | See Source »

Fish Market. Son of a wealthy Manhattan family (merchants and philanthropists). Coffin went to Yale ('97, Skull and Bones, Phi Betta Kappa, now a fellow of Yale's Corporation), studied further in Scotland and Germany. Back in the U.S. he went to Union, was ordained a Presbyterian minister in 1900. His first parish was a room over a Bronx fish market. There he preached "damnation with the Cross in it," displayed such zeal that his congregation vowed the odor of sanctity overcame the odor of fish...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Election of a Leader | 6/7/1943 | See Source »

Irving Myer London '39, Grays 5-6, was given the Phi Betta Kappa key, and elected Second Marshal...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: LIST OF FRESHMAN PROCTORS | 9/23/1941 | See Source »

David Leonard Anderson '41, Weld 8, prepared at Washington High School. At Harvard he was on the Winthrop House Dance Committee and earned Phi Betta Kappa. His intended vocation is teaching and research...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: LIST OF FRESHMAN PROCTORS | 9/23/1941 | See Source »

George Herman Handelman '41, Weld 35, prepared at Peabody High School, lived at Eliot House, and gained Phi Betta Kappa. He intends to be a teacher...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: LIST OF FRESHMAN PROCTORS | 9/23/1941 | See Source »

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