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Word: brownings (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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Today he is 35, 5 ft. 7 in. in height, already portly. His chin is dimpled, his cheeks cherubic, his eyes small and brown, his hair a wavy reddish brown - and his tongue a restless lance of dispute and invective. Still rustic in manner, if not in thought, he keeps the countryman's water bucket and gourd dipper prominently displayed in the executive offices. To win his election he promised the state's farmers paved roads, free hospitals, free school books. As governor he spent money like an Osage Indian on a spree to fulfill these pledges, soon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICAL NOTES: Louisiana's Kaiser | 4/8/1929 | See Source »

...Street Scene", by Elmer Rice, will undoubtedly be awarded the Pulitzer Prize for the best American play of the year. Like "Journey's End" it employs but one set--the brown stone front of a West Side tenement--and what plot it has is incidential to its theme of the tragic force of a sordid environment in the lives of a small group of human beings. It is distinguished, incidently, by the most terrifying murder one may find on any stage of the Rialto. The third hardest play to get tickets for is the Theatre Guild's production of "Caprice...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CRIMSON PLAYGOER | 4/6/1929 | See Source »

...their regular schedules matches. The schedule as released yesterday shows matches with the following teams: Oakley C. C. on April 20; N. Y. U. on April 24; Columbia on April 27; Amherst on May 4; Bowdoin on May 7; M. I. T. on May 8: Dartmouth an May 11; Brown on May 15: Pennsylvania on May 18: Williams on May 22; Yale...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SIX RACQUETMEN CHOSEN FOR SOUTHERN JOURNEY | 4/3/1929 | See Source »

...Alcock '29, weights; P. S. Brown '30, high jump; S. E. Brown '31, javelin; F. E. Cummings '31, dashes; W. M. Dow '29, broad jump; Leslie Flaksman '29, distances; A. E. French '29, dashes; David Guarnaccia '29, weights; T. F. Mason '30, dashes; T. G. Moore '29, javelin; R. H. O'Connell '30, hurdles; R. P. Porter '29, distances; J. W. Potter '30, weights; J. L. Reid '29, distances; G. W. Smith 3E.S., distances; G. A. Tupper '29, hurdles, and J. O. Wildes '29, distances...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: TRACK PROSPECTS BRIGHT AS CANDIDATES REPORT | 4/2/1929 | See Source »

Married. Elizabeth Stebbins Walbridge, of Manhattan, daughter of George Hicks Walbridge (Schick razors); and Kennedy Brown Bailey, of Cleveland; in Manhattan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Apr. 1, 1929 | 4/1/1929 | See Source »

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