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Word: choses (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...other ambitions those days of 1906-1907. A thorough Southerner, member of an exalted Dixie family, rich, and venerated in his native Nashville, he made the initial mistake, when he conceived the idea of a personal newspaper organ, of choosing Northerners to pilot the sheet. Among those he chose were Editor Herman Suter, a Pennsylvanian, whose only Southern viewpoint was gained while a football star at Sewanee: an ex-AP-er, Smith, whose Yankee tang was all-too-revealing, as managing editor: a chief editorial writer . . . who had a Harvard accent. I was a cub reporter, imported from Washington where...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Nov. 4, 1935 | 11/4/1935 | See Source »

Director Lippert chose Steubenville for his field because of the mixed racial background, which he maintains makes for the richest tone color. The boys who went to sing with him soon learned that they must submit to a strict routine which precluded all roughhousing, all carefree yelling, kept them at practice as much as seven hours a day. When they were ready for concerts Director Lippert bought them bright snappy costumes: for sacred songs, red silk cassocks, white silk cottas, ruching for their necks; for secular songs, long blue serge trousers, white satin blouses, red pleated sashes. They arrived...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Boys from Steubenville | 11/4/1935 | See Source »

...Monsieur de Pourceaugnac," by Moliere, is the play that the French Club chose for its annual fall production when they met in the Lowell House Tower Common Room Friday afternoon. Andre Morize, professor of French Literature, read the play and made suggestions for its staging...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "Monsieur de Pourceaugnac" Is Annual French Club Play | 10/28/1935 | See Source »

...prove manipulation, even if it exists, is often a tough task. So instead of cracking down with a ponderous investigation that might have sent the whole market into a decline, the SEC office in Manhattan chose a smarter method of warning against strong-arm tactics. It issued a denial of anything more than a routine interest in the Chrysler rise. But by mentioning by name,, and only mentioning, the firm with which most Chrysler market moves are associated, SEC made its point perfectly, thus...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: SEC Week | 10/28/1935 | See Source »

Lichtman. The ups-and-downs of United Artists this year started in June when Darryl Zanuck's Twentieth Century Pictures left the lot to merge with Fox, taking United Artists' President Joe Schenck with it. To replace Schenck, United Artists partners-Pickford, Fairbanks, Chaplin, Sam Goldwyn-chose Al Lichtman, for eight years the sales manager who was generally considered responsible for United Artists' brilliantly run distribution. With Lichtman as president. United Artists speedily refilled its producing plant with the Selznick company, a new Mary Pickford-Jesse Lasky partnership and Alexander Korda's London Films, whose pictures...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: North Formosa Novelties | 10/21/1935 | See Source »

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