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Word: boyd (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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Because Stock Broker M. Boyd Zinman made money as the result of a confidential conversation that he happened to overhear on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange, the governors of the Exchange last week suspended him from trading there for one year. His conduct and proceedings were "inconsistent with just and equitable principles of trade," they said...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Punished | 5/9/1927 | See Source »

...very pointed arguments concerning the situation which might be made and which have been made by Mr. Harry Hansen, himself a professional reviewer possessed of no great trepidation in denunciatory comments. Mr. Hansen, in the New York Wore' succinctly mentions the names of such critics as Edmond Wilson, Ernest Boyd, Robert Littell, Waldo Frank and--it must be included--H. L. Mencken...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THUMBS, UP AND DOWN | 4/13/1927 | See Source »

...Notes" and theatre talk. With Alfred A. Knopf to oil the wheels, and Samuel Knopf Sr. to inspect and supervise as business manager, Editor Mencken stoked his engine with a wide variety of engaging combustibles- articles by articulate hoboes and Senators, bishops and Negro poets, Clarence Darrow and Ernest Boyd, a barber, a Mormon. The circulation steamed steadily ahead-42,614 at the end of 1924; 62,323 in 1925; to its peak of 79,531 a year ago. Less than a third of the buyers- about 23,000-are subscribers. The rest pay 50c per month at newsstands. "Urbane...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Think Stuff | 4/4/1927 | See Source »

Presenting "The Patriarch," a play written by Boyd Smith, Professor George Pierce Baker '87 formally opened the new Yale University Theatre last week...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "47 WORKSHOP" MEMBER WRITES ON YALE THEATRE | 12/14/1926 | See Source »

...year more than three hundred were active followers of the temporary 47 Workshop. For the five opening performances on Friday, Saturday and Monday over five thousand people from the theatre and interested world at large were invited. The "Patriarch," a West Virginia mountain tragedy, by Boyd M. Smith, who was with Professor Baker at Harvard, was chosen for the opening; and although this is not the place for a discussion of the play, it is pleasing to note that it was bought for New York production at the end of the second act on the first night of performance...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "47 WORKSHOP" MEMBER WRITES ON YALE THEATRE | 12/14/1926 | See Source »

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