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Word: bettered (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Marcel Tabuteau likes nothing better than to fall reverently to sleep on the table after a Herculean meal and a bottle of wine. Says he, holding up his thumb and forefinger in an expressive circle: "A little garlic? M'sieu, there is no such thing as a little garlic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: A Little Garlic | 11/20/1939 | See Source »

...since 1921. Fifteen of those shows Burns Mantle has included in various annual volumes of the Best Plays. One of them (You Can't Take It With You) had the fifth longest run (837 performances) in the history of Broadway; 14 others ran close to 200 performances or better. Two won the Pulitzer Prize. Twenty were sold to the movies for a total of over $1,500,000. Further, Kaufman ranks as one of the best directors in show business, and off the stage as well as on, as one of Manhattan's greatest wits. Once, just...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: Past Master | 11/20/1939 | See Source »

...other fellow's personality, rather than Kaufman's, permeate the play. What colors Beggar on Horseback, for example, is the pleasantly housebroken imaginativeness of Marc Connelly; what colors The Royal Family is the romantic bustle of Edna Ferber. The plays Kaufman has written with Moss Hart are better fused because, as comic playwrights, the two men are cut to much the same pattern...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: Past Master | 11/20/1939 | See Source »

...Wood Industries, Inc.: a garbage truck body with a hydraulic ram tailboard which, as garbage is dumped in at the rear, presses it forward, squeezes garbage juice into a tank. Claims: dry garbage burns better, squashed garbage takes up less room...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CARRIERS: Trucks, A.D. 1940 | 11/20/1939 | See Source »

WASHINGTON--The Justice Department tonight rejected organized labor's claim of immunity from prosecution under the anti-monopoly laws. It warned that it will punish unions attempting to prevent private industry from using improved production methods designed to bring cheaper and better goods to the buying public...

Author: By The ASSOCIATED Press, | Title: Over the Wire | 11/20/1939 | See Source »

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