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Word: earthly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...costs $300,000 to present," and lastly how this "lavish production will be Belasco's swan song." So a typical Belasco audience, in limousines, came to see Lenore Ulric in a play which contained devils, scenes of passionate affection and a huge machine for producing evil on the earth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Dec. 24, 1928 | 12/24/1928 | See Source »

...know whether the Vagabond goes into hibernation during the months that intervene before a second term opens or whether he remains about the college to haunt the scones of his former glory. To such unimaginative souls he can quote Shakespeare that "There are more things in Heaven and earth Horation, than are dreamt of in your philosophy" and the Vagabond would have little right to his claims of superior knowledge if he had not managed to discover enough of the more pleasant kind to keep him occupied during the leisure period. So he expects to enjoy quite as merry...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Student Vagabond | 12/21/1928 | See Source »

...only by stripping the figure could the artist tell the story he has told ... it expresses the inward idealism of the emancipator in terms of the physical -in the torso emaciated by labor but muscularly overdeveloped by the same toil. The crossed feet seem to grow out of the earth and the strange pose, at once naïve and striking, suggests ancient statues of Christ...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Lincoln Nude | 12/17/1928 | See Source »

...that opulently festive corner of the earth where Maestro Ziegfeld gathers his bards. . . . The swiftest, most lighthearted, loose-limbed show for miles and years around. . . ."-Gilbert Gabriel, in the American...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Dec. 17, 1928 | 12/17/1928 | See Source »

Several hypotheses are being considered to explain the phenomena which may be due to a combination of causes. Theoretically a small tide must take place in the earth's crust as the moon revolves about the earth. But from other considerations it is not thought that this can be sufficiently large to account for the observed effect. Professor Stetson is now considering the possible effect of a tidal wave in the earth's atmosphere caused by the moon which may alter the apparent direction of the ray of light from a star and produce the effect noted. The most direct...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: STETSON DISCOVERS WIDE VARIATION OF LATITUDE CAUSED BY POSITION OF MOON | 12/15/1928 | See Source »

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