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Word: come (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...those who are doing the work of educating-the faculty of WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY and the educators that have graduated from this institution...CAN YOU SHOW THAT OUR HILL FARMERS ARE NOT RECEIVING BETTER ATTENTION FROM OUR COLLEGE OF AGRICULTURE THAN OTHER SUCH COLLEGES GRANT THEIR FARMER-VOTERS? Please come clean on this; I dare...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Jan. 7, 1929 | 1/7/1929 | See Source »

...Life have been getting most of their fun out of reading the brisk, bright pages of their foolish contemporary and lifelong rival, Judge. Life itself didn't seem half so funny as it ought to be. So eventually they beguiled Norman Hume Anthony, editor of Judge, to come over and take Sherwood's place...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: New Life, New Laughs | 1/7/1929 | See Source »

...inspiring atmosphere of that city during his childhood. He tried two other ways to make a living: studied engineering at the University of Cincinnati, worked in a lumber camp in Canada. But Norman Anthony was an old friend, and pointed the way to his salvation with an invitation to come to Judge...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: New Life, New Laughs | 1/7/1929 | See Source »

...Jakobs thought that these stories deserve to be perpetuated on the stage, with song-&-dancing. That is the purpose of The Houseboat on the Styx, that and moneymaking. Adam, Barnum, Captain Kidd. Sherlock Holmes and Cleopatra; Mrs. Noah, Sappho, Charon, Josephine and Sir Walter Raleigh-all the Bangsian characters come on deck to sing somewhat Gilbertian songs and utter up-to-the-hour Times Squarese. Blanche Ring as Queen Elizabeth shouts, when someone offers her a drink: "Swine!" "No," is the answer, " 'sapplejack." Its first evening, The Houseboat on the Styx mounted at moments to hilarity. Its songs, while...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Jan. 7, 1929 | 1/7/1929 | See Source »

...professional champion of the wrestling world the flying tackle which he learned on a college football field, cheered on by a packed house of hardened followers of professional sport, the theory that no holder of a sheepskin diploma is a popular success in the professional sports arena seems to come a cropper...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: TO HIM THAT HATH | 1/5/1929 | See Source »

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