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Word: friday (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...first tour of Britain, he had first-class musicians, but it was still a pickup band. Even so, with the last quiet but magnificent "Slumber now, and take thy rest," one listener, a Baltimore lawyer who has been trekking to Bethlehem for 20 years, said appreciatively: "A good Friday; but you know, what we come for is the Saturday...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Hosanna! | 5/30/1949 | See Source »

...couldn't have ended any other way and Georgette (Friday's Child) Heyer's fans wouldn't want it to. Her so-called Regency novels (1811-1820), of which Arabella is the latest, are as slick, as painless and as inconsequential as the most languid hammock reader could wish, and they have helped to make her one of the bestselling writers in Britain today. Author Heyer has soaked up the speech, the manners, the pretentions and the social ambitions of her Regency smart set. She has been compared, say her publishers, to Jane Austen, and that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Painless Regency | 5/30/1949 | See Source »

...Last Friday, the Regents denied requests by many groups to hold public hearings on the law. Then they announced that they would begin an inquiry some time in June in order to draw up the list of "subversive" organizations...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: N.Y. Instructors' Affiliations Under Board's Scrutiny | 5/26/1949 | See Source »

...party weekend was defined by the "Daily Princetonian." Nassan's undergraduate newspaper, "to include a dance on Saturday. Whether the dormitories are to be open Friday and Saturday would be left to the discretion of the individual clubs...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Princeton May Limit Club Parties | 5/24/1949 | See Source »

LeRoy appeared in the Third District Court of Middlesex at 9 a.m. yesterday, to answer a complaint stemming from his pointing a water pistol at Miss Pauline Gunn on Boylston Street Friday and allegedly saying something to the effect of "Stick...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Water Gun 'Attacker' Gets Case Postponed | 5/24/1949 | See Source »

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