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Word: forli (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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London's bright boys just had to see what the worst show in 20 years looked like. They screamed with laughter at its superpatriotic goings-on, involving gallant officers, dastardly villains, prostitutes, Boy Scouts, Girl Guides, taints of illegitimacy, stolen papers, stolen cash, the Union Jack. They went back...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: Wrong Door, Wrong Door | 12/25/1939 | See Source »

¶ One set shows a Salvation Army "citadel" with doors marked MEN and WOMEN. Every time an actor starts for one, the crowd shouts: "Wrong door, wrong door."

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: Wrong Door, Wrong Door | 12/25/1939 | See Source »

Walter Reynolds, Young England's 88-year-old author, still takes his dead-serious play seriously. He went to the opening of the revival, a sad, reedy figure in a great black cape, doddered up the stairs to his box holding on to both handrails, sat tense through the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: Wrong Door, Wrong Door | 12/25/1939 | See Source »

Familiar to many a U. S. newspaper reader is the late Heywood Broun's annual Christmas fable (see p. 35). New York commuters know well the editorial, "Is There A Santa Claus?," which the New York Sun has run at Christmas for 42 years (see p. 47). This week...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Gospel Cartoonist | 12/25/1939 | See Source »

The Chicago Fellows meet for 50? lunches at the Brevoort Hotel on Tuesdays, listen to speeches on "How I Came to Jesus," enjoy a half-hour of "Christian fellowship." Most of the Fellows are white-collar workers, with a scattering of executives like Board Chairman James Lewis Kraft of Kraft...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Gospel Cartoonist | 12/25/1939 | See Source »

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