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Word: exhibitioner (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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High-minded sportswriters who sputtered indignantly at these revelations forgot what revolutionary changes had occurred in a sport which now grosses $5,000,000 a year from the U. S. public. In the days of Farmer Burns and Frank Gotch wrestling was, indeed, an exhibition of skill and strength. When...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Baba & Behemoths | 5/18/1936 | See Source »

There was dignified, plump, white-haired Floretta D. McCutcheon, whose shrewd pressagent has built her up into the No. 1 female exhibition bowler. There was robust Marie Warmbier who, with an average of nearly 200 in three years of exhibition bowling, did poorly by sacrificing accuracy for speed in the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Congress Inc. | 5/18/1936 | See Source »

Most extensive collection of historic documents on Harvard's growth ever displayed--including the original college charter of 1650, the original College seal and insignia, and aged records of the General Court--will be on public exhibition in Widener Library from now till Commencement.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Widener Exhibitions Covering College History on Display Until Graduation | 5/12/1936 | See Source »

Notable among the figure paintings were Sunday Morning, a clean, well-fattened woman in an old-rose dressing gown sitting up to a cold fireplace (see cut) ; Fay Read ing, a blonde girl in a slip with High Tide of the Flesh on her knee; Sleeping Girl, another blonde superbly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Clean, Opulent World | 5/11/1936 | See Source »

On exhibition in Manhattan went 17 oil portraits, including one of Vice President John Nance Garner, by a young Washington artist named Azadia Walser Newman. A lynx-eyed redhead with a vague resemblance to Joan Crawford, Portraitist Newman is the daughter of a one-time Democratic National Committeeman, traces her...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, May 11, 1936 | 5/11/1936 | See Source »

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