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Word: fifteens (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...further complaints about House dinners can be made if persons not formally invited are permitted to eat at the regular time, i.e. between five thirty and seven-fifteen. If, encouraged by such a reform, the remaining Houses add the high table to their weekly dinners, they may well follow the model of Lowell, where the tutors and their guests eat apart from the rest. A high table for all the Houses, which does not disrupt normal eating, should enough improve the socio-intellectual life of each to satisfy the supporters of culture through cuisine...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: EAT, DRINK, AND BE CIVILIZED | 12/8/1938 | See Source »

When Playwright Shaw asked Pascal how much money he had, Pascal replied: "Fifteen shillings and sixpence-but I owe a pound." As much delighted with this effrontery as with Pascal's obvious admiration for his work, Playwright Shaw gave him a pound to pay his debts, agreed to the experiment. With Shaw's approval for his project he had little trouble getting as much as he needed. He assembled about $250,000-less than Hollywood spends on most quickies. He hired Screenwriters W. P. Lipscomb and Cecil Lewis to write a scenario, rented a studio...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Old Show, New Trick | 12/5/1938 | See Source »

...Take It With You"--which is at the University, incidentally--Hollywood has taken up the challenge of the stage. Mr. Capra has used every trick in the bag. Dynamite, dictaphones, elevators and a little fifteen cent harmonica are among the mechanics which make this an outstanding picture...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Moviegoer | 12/5/1938 | See Source »

...YORK--Welterweight champion Henry Armstrong blasted his way to greater fistic glory tonight by successfully defending his title against a much heavier challenger, Ceforino Garcia, Philippine boxer, in a fifteen-round fight at Madisou Square Garden...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Over the Wire | 11/26/1938 | See Source »

...Wolfe pack lives mostly on aristocratic East Broad Street, pays little attention to Columbus society. Fifteen miles outside the city is the famed "Wigwam," which the Wolfes also share in common- a big wooded tract dotted with rustic lodges, a reception hall, movie theatre, swimming pool. Here Wolfes and their families gather in complete privacy for wholesome fun. Parties at the Wigwam sometimes run to several hundred guests. Herbert Hoover has been there often; so have Alf Landon, Frank Knox, Michigan's Senator Vandenberg...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: New Papers | 11/21/1938 | See Source »

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