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Word: comely (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...come near to succeeding. He now controls five newspapers-two Amarillo dailies (plus a Sunday edition), two others in nearby Lubbock, and the one his father Ed, the late famed Sage of Potato Hill, left him at Atchison, Kans. He controls four Texas radio stations. His headquarters are in Amarillo and there he organized and now operates an annual Mother-in-Law Day, attended last year by Eleanor Roosevelt. His own mother-in-law lives with him, his wife & daughter. He has helped dedicate Amarillo's new post office, given Postmaster Farley an Arabian saddle horse, acted as chief...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Panhandle's Friend | 7/17/1939 | See Source »

...Symphony, a heat wave melted the attendance. Those who braved the swelter heard, and lustily applauded the first complete U. S. performance of a top-notch piece of movie music: a seven-part suite from Arthur Bliss's sound-track for the H. G. Wells fantasy, Things to Come...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Bliss and Things | 7/17/1939 | See Source »

Most of Things to Come is representational music. Its movements (with titles like "Attack," "Pestilence," "World in Ruin") describe a future world war and its aftermath. But to critics some of the Things appeared to have come out of the musical past rather than the future. They were reminded of England's late Composer Edward Elgar. Composer Bliss could not have been offended. His own estimate of his score: "It's all right on the surface. . . . It's dramatic, but it has little depth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Bliss and Things | 7/17/1939 | See Source »

These mysterious interruptions were traced to television. They had come from NBC's Station W2XBS in the Empire State Building, which two months ago began to broadcast the first regular television programs in the U. S. To the dismay of engineers, television's sound effects were picked up by many another unlikely gadget. Television interference also came in on numerous Manhattan radio receivers, including Journalist Dorothy Thompson's, over the whole dial...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Butting In | 7/17/1939 | See Source »

...engineers hope Big Bertha will be powerful enough to come in clearer than its German rivals. Its news will certainly be more credible. Hundreds of South American listeners have lately written to U. S. stations that they regard European newscasts as blatantly biased, those from the U. S. as objective. Said one: "Station W2XAF is considered a semi-official news bureau here. . . . When "we do not hear it, we ignore the news, particularly the foreign news...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Big Bertha | 7/17/1939 | See Source »

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