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Word: colors (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Kirkland's pucksters had to resort to rough hockey to edge out Eliot, 2-1. To a game marked by many tussles, Frank J. Johnson, II '37 added color by wearing a baseball glove...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PURITAN PUCKSTERS MOST PROMISING IN INTERHOUSE HOCKEY | 1/27/1936 | See Source »

...rehearsal for the other singers to regain their repose. Critics still hold up the Fremstad Kundry as a model for that scraggly, wild-haired creature of the woods, who turns seductress for the second act. As the Walkure Brünnhilde she wore short, bushy hair, a cloak the color of the clouds, fairly flew about the stage. At a Götterdäm-merung performance she fell down a flight of steps backstage and broke her ankle. After it was tightly bound she went on singing Brünnhilde, became so absorbed in the role that she never...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Memories of a Diva | 1/20/1936 | See Source »

...Mexico, was a double nasturtium, bearing ten petals to the ordinary blossom's five. Alert David Burpee of Philadelphia's W. Atlee Burpee Co. saw here a fine chance-if seized vigorously- to get ahead of his competitors. Sweet-scented but limited to its one glowing color, the Golden Gleam might be produced in various colors if crossbred with common nasturtiums...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Trapaeolum majus Burpeeii | 1/20/1936 | See Source »

...blatancy the palm went to the Denver Post, which concentrated in color on Colorado's contributions to the Union. Something of a record for frankness was set by the Boston Transcript, whose financial editor Laurance P. Morse observed in connection with business forecasts: "This annual folly has gradually come to have the sanction of years and with it a sort of gentlemen's agreement . . . that no one shall check up on what the other one said last year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Review of Reviewers | 1/13/1936 | See Source »

...impressive content of thrills or humor. It is well acted by a capable cast, starring Robert Ober, who would do much better, we feel, if he attempted to control the incessant and annoying movement of his eyebrows. Sandra Greene and several other pretty females dash about, adding zest and color to the proceedings. It's light fare which should prove soothing to exam-roughened palates...

Author: By S. M. B., | Title: The Crimson Playgoer | 1/8/1936 | See Source »

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