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Word: billye (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Through a pea-soup fog the fishing schooner Isabelle Parker, out of Boston, footed it north one night last week toward Brown's Bank, off the Nova Scotia coast. To Seaman Fred Bourque, on the bow watch, the fog seemed to thicken as dawn came. Suddenly, 20 feet dead...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: 47 Men and a Corpse | 5/22/1939 | See Source »

Missing is its air of fairyland, all but missing its marvelous moon-drenched poetry. But largely missing too are Hermia and Helena and their supporting cast of bores. What remains are the comic ad-ventures of Bottom and his fellow bumpkins, culminating in the uproarious production of Pyramus & Thisbe before...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: Flushing-on-Avon | 5/22/1939 | See Source »

Led by Billy West at No. 3, the Army polo team defeated the Harvard mallet-men 8 to 4 at West Point on Saturday afternoon.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Poloists Lose | 5/22/1939 | See Source »

When plans for the New York World's Fair 1939 got under way, sharp little Billy Rose's nose smelt business. He was an old nose at Fairs: in 1936, when Dallas, Texas opened its resplendent Texas Centennial, Billy smartly staged a rival Centennial at Fort Worth, stole...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: New Show in Queens | 5/15/1939 | See Source »

A vivid and varied spectacle, the Aquacade Revue is almost certain to win first place in the Fair's entertainment list. Ashore, Crooners Frances Williams and Morton Downey blare out tunes good & bad while hordes of gay, limbsome "aquafemmes" prance and promenade. Afloat Swimmers Eleanor Holm and Johnny Weissmuller...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: New Show in Queens | 5/15/1939 | See Source »

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