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Word: goldens (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...vigorous, obvious, abounding in theatrical crescendos which brought him tremendous applause. Willson's program notes made a sure-fire appeal to civic pride. The conclusion was described as "a call of defiance to the elements that had the temerity to dispute the spiritual strength and courage of the Golden City of the West...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: San Francisco's Comeback | 4/27/1936 | See Source »

...GOLDEN PEACOCK-Gertrude Atherton -Houghton Mifflin ($2.50). An entertaining account of intrigue and adventure among the ruling cliques of Augustan Rome. The story, told by Pomponia, irrepressible ward of the poet Horace, manages to be more convincing than many a modern yarn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fiction: Recent Books: Apr. 27, 1936 | 4/27/1936 | See Source »

...Post Office took its first and firmest action, is headed by Major Thomas George Lanphier, U. S. A., retired. Of proceeds from the sale of numbered applications for membership in the Association. Grand National Treasure Hunt keeps 50% for expenses and 25% "for itself." Harder to win than Golden Stakes, Grand National Treasure Hunt involves eight cartoons, lists 30 song titles under each one. Winners, picked by a jury of "artists and song experts," get prizes totaling...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CABINET: Stakes & Sweeps | 4/20/1936 | See Source »

...quick and ugly knockout and variorum reports of what happened to Promoter Dickson, who was supposed to have been hit on the head with a wine bottle. He discharged his matchmaker, packed the house for his next fight by giving free tickets wholesale to Citroen mechanics. Thus began the Golden Age of French boxing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Europe's Rickard | 4/20/1936 | See Source »

...first chance to establish himself as a definite stage personality rather than a funny Broadway tap dancer. Called upon to impersonate a WPA music teacher who winds up as a master of ballet, his genuine charm and humor are instantly apparent. In fact, he and his teammate, pretty golden Doris Carson, seem to fit into that important theatrical niche vacated by the late Marilyn Miller & Jack Donahue...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: New Play in Manhattan: On Your Toes | 4/20/1936 | See Source »

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