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Word: curtain (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...preacher and a doctor entered. They agreed that alcohol was a bad thing. Curtain, followed by Where is My Wandering Boy Tonight? by a male quartet. Then a shorter play, a real tearjerker, in which five youngsters watched the town drunk. Old Joe Sharp, having D. T.s-he had snakes in his sleeves, even in his boots (see cut). As he slouched off, the boys said: "We've been over to Alma Temple and signed the pledge and joined the Dry Legion Crusaders. We shall never drink a drop, and when we're old enough we are going...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Bishop v. Drink | 12/18/1939 | See Source »

...charmed announcer whose cultured, genuflecting voice seems to his public to come straight from NBC's artistic soul. Radio listeners hear a tremolo of anticipation when Milton Cross's bated, bass-viol voice tells them: "The house lights are being dimmed. In a moment the great gold curtain will...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Opera Buff | 12/18/1939 | See Source »

Last week came time for the annual first act. But Playwright Roosevelt added a curtain-raiser to Act I, in which he himself appeared in a new role-that of a penny-squeezing pinchfist. Scrimper Roosevelt let it be known he was wearing blue pencils to the stub, slashing $1,000,000,000 of proposed expenditures from the budget he will present in January...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: New Twist | 12/4/1939 | See Source »

...blond wig, Tenor Martinelli sang his part without a misplaced guttural. But between towering Soprano Flagstad and the booming orchestra led by Flagstad's private accompanist, Edwin McArthur, Martinelli's long song of love was pretty well drowned out. To cap all, just before the final curtain Soprano Flagstad took the whole spotlight, and Martinelli had to get up out of his deathbed to go and die on the other side of the stage...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Sad Tristan | 12/4/1939 | See Source »

...quick curtain was rung down in London last week on the opera bouffe lawsuit of Her Serene Highness Princess Stephanie Hohenlohe-Waldenburg-Schillingsfurst v. Viscount Rothermere (TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Flirting with Blackmail | 11/27/1939 | See Source »

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