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Word: fountains (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...trifle each, statuets reproduced from the Nolleken bust. To 1,000,000 schoolrooms he distributed a poster made from the Athenaeum portrait. As unofficial censor of the move to honor Washington, he endorses most of the commercial enterprises submitted to the Commission, suggests a fair price for Washingtonian matchboxes, fountain pen sets, Wedgwood china plates, lampshades, silhouets and plaques. The tire cover notion he rejected as unsuitable. Some of the Commission's own projects he has copyrighted himself, to prevent them from being used for advertising. When asked why his name appears so frequently in all the Commission's correspondence...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Business of a Bicentennial | 2/15/1932 | See Source »

...demonstration of her appeal when, with Funnyman Lou Holtz, she was a principal on the bill which smashed all records by lasting eleven weeks at Manhattan's Palace Theatre, No. 1 vaudeville house in the U. S. Singer Smith is 23 years old, addicted to plain clothes, backgammon, soda fountain drinks, prizefights. Like Caruso, she has small vocal cords, immensely powerful lungs, a jolly disposition...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: In Chicago | 2/1/1932 | See Source »

...plans have been made to install a soda fountain in the night-lunch room. Complete equipment, including a large stove and refrigerator, has been installed in the room. The space allotted to this equipment is enclosed in a kitchen at one end of the yellow walled room. At the other end are two entrances and a door leading to the wash room. Another door opens into the kitchen...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ELIOT CAFETERIA WILL CATER TO UNIVERSITY | 1/26/1932 | See Source »

...Temple's play based on the life of the Lambs, the Harvard Dramatic Club made a felicitous choice for their fall production. The play, progressing evenly from beginning to end, is dramatic more by suggestion and implication than by action. Save for the first act which starts at a fountain-head of irritation, and streams along until the floodgates burst and matricide results, the force of the piece is derived from the pathetic circumstances which inextricably bound the lives of the essayist and his demented sister...

Author: By J. C. R., | Title: The Crimson Playgoer | 12/18/1931 | See Source »

...beavers, peacocks, lizards, badgers, foxes and a honking goose named Susie gathered in Madison Square Garden for Manhattan's third annual pet show last week. With them were exhibited aquariums, kennels, portable cages, bird baths, crates, pots, pans, ice cream, candy, bird seed, fish food, animal crackers, perfume, fountain pens, fur coats, dog biscuit and a disposition on the part of metropolitan newshawks to tell tall tales...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Animals: Pet Show | 11/30/1931 | See Source »

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