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Word: celia (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Robert T. Abbott Clare Wardaworth, Boston Berrien P. Anderson Mary Anderson, San Francisco Roger Angell Evelyn Baker, Weston Elisha Atkins Elsa Mohr, Philadelphia Charles A. Baker Alice Ann Moore, Newport, R. I. Hugh S. Harbour Maria Kidder, New York City Yale A. Harkan Elinore Glazier, Belmont Daniel D. Barker Celia Hubbard, Cambridge Thomas P. Barneleld Naney Kenyon, Pawtucket Robert Barnet Elizabeth Pratt, Wellesley Hills J. Malsolan Harter Helon Lewis, Beverly Philip C. Beals Dinny Chaffee, Belmont Robert C. Benchley Jr. Doris-Ann Graham, Englewood, N. J. Rodney Hoynton Polly Blodgett, Boston Leon H. Brachman Marcia Wilson, Dorchester Charles Breunig Mary...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 160 Will Bring Girls to '42 Jubilee Tonight | 5/26/1939 | See Source »

...just unfortunate. There was nothing, well, almost nothing, that Miss Bergner could do to spoil one's enjoyment of "As You Like It" that she did not do. She spoke her lines with a heavy German accent, rendering at least half of them unintelligible. She simpered so with Celia (Sophie Stewart) (and Celia simpered back) that one squirmed in one's seat. She acted the part of Ganymede with great unreality, squealing and mincing so that an unfortunate stage convention became even more flimsy and unenjoyable than it is ordinarily to the modern eye. The tedium of her performance...

Author: By A. C. B., | Title: The Playgoer | 1/22/1937 | See Source »

Take down the "Fourth Eclectic" from the shelf, used in grammar schools. Here are ninety selections in prose and poetry. Familiar names catch the eye, Celia Thaxter Lucy Larcom, J. T. Trowbridge, James Buchanan Road, Lowell, Longfellow. Here is a part of the Sermon On the Monat. There is a scene from Tom Brown's Schooldays and again a part of Thomas Bailey Aldrich's Story of a Bad Boy. Here also...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Ah, Yes, Dear, Dear | 9/27/1934 | See Source »

Leon, gentle young artist, divided his allegiance between the Communist Party and his best friend Jason, ex-poet, drunken, disillusioned hack-writer of sex stories. Celia, niece of Leon's landlady, cast soft but unavailing eyes at him. Leon was heart-whole till, one night at a Party meeting, he met the luscious Helen. Helen thought him cute, and encouraged him, but not seriously: she was living with a Mexican. Leon, blissfully ignorant, worshiped her from afar. In Jason's tenement lived one Hank Austin & family. Hank was a husky, ivory-headed warehouse worker; he made good wages...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Manhattan Newsreel | 3/6/1933 | See Source »

Professor Thaxter was born in Newton, August 28, 1858, and was the son of Levi L. and Celia (Laighton) Thaxter. He was graduated from Harvard with the degree of A.B. in 1882, and subsequently received his A.M. and Ph.D...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THAXTER, PROFESSOR OF BOTANY, DIES AT HOME | 4/23/1932 | See Source »

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