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Word: doren (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Long, A Farewell to Farms by Mark van Doorman, How to be Happy: A Preface to Morons by Walter B. Pipkin, Pfui D., Tristram Coffin, a finespun obituary by Edwinson Arlington Cemetry, Black Majesty by Dark van Moron, The Life of Joseph Wood Peacock by his uncle Doc van Doren, and Training the Giant Pander by quaint old Trader van Horen." Concludes Satirist Wilson: "And there was also Granville van Arven and his League of American Vipers, but that is another snory...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Rejoycings | 1/4/1943 | See Source »

...String Murders); and Actor Alexander Kirkland, stage uncle of Junior Miss; he for the first time, she for the second (her first was Robert Mizzy, dental supplier); at midnight in her home at Highland Mills, N.Y. Best man was high-domed Pulitzer Prizewinning Littérateur Carl Van Doren. Gypsy, in a black crepe dress, black shoes & stockings, wore real grapes in her hair. Man & wife went off on a honeymoon "as far as our gas will hold...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Sep. 7, 1942 | 9/7/1942 | See Source »

...criticize, encourage and stimulate" the university's classroom and scholarly work. Some of the critics: the New York Herald Tribune's Walter Lippmann, the New York Times's Simeon Strunsky and Arthur Krock, Newscaster Lowell Thomas (M.A. '16), Pollster George H. Gallup, Critic Carl Van Doren, Under Secretary of the Navy James V. Forrestal (ex-'15), Civilian Defense Director James M. Landis ('21), New Jersey's Governor Charles Edison...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Princeton's Critics | 7/20/1942 | See Source »

...Radio Reader (CBS, Monday through Friday, 9:15-9:30 a.m. E.W.T.), another bookish experiment. Invitation to Learning's sensible Mark Van Doren (TIME, Nov. 24) started the program by reading The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne, which offered housewives a change of pace from other sin-and-suffer programs, gave bedfast patients in hospitals something worth listening to. Van Doren makes no attempt at Dramatic emphasis but reads articulately and quietly. He opens with a summary of the dramatic situation, reads 14 minutes (without skipping), stops when his time runs out. If listeners like the program (first...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Radio Revolution? | 5/25/1942 | See Source »

...best gifts to be found in radio-a spritely mixture of mockery and love for his medium. No radio writer has kidded it and used it so well at the same time. (Last month his best CBS scripts were collected in a book with a preface by Carl Van Doren...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: This Is War! | 2/23/1942 | See Source »

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