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Word: good (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...personally, is a real showman and a marvelous singer. Heard her do an item, "Chew, Chew-something or other, which brought three encore demands from the crowd solely on the basis of the life that she put into the thing. Eila's singing is a lot like a good "dig" tenor sax player: she sings most of her licks ahead of the beat, so that you get a drive effect which packs power in quantity. Result is that she is just about the back-bone of Chick's band...

Author: By Michael Levin, | Title: Swing | 4/28/1939 | See Source »

Charles Townsend Copeland '82, Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory, emeritus, celebrates his seventy-ninth birthday today with the good wishes of thousands of men to whom he has been teacher and friend...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Copeland, Loved Professor, Is 79; Was Recently Ill | 4/27/1939 | See Source »

...amazingly daring choice of plot in these days of Hays, "Wuthering Heights" is unusually good. Even with Emily Bronte's subtle interweaving of incest here reduced to grim hints that flicker like summer lightning from afar, the film has caught that quality in the story that surpasses time or place. Tragedy, stark as the Yorkshire moors that are its scene, is the theme of "Wuthering Heights"; and not a punch has been pulled in Goldwyn's cinema version of this dank offshoot of nineteenth-century Romanticism. Especially convincing in the early scenes, Merle Oberon and Lawrence Olivier run the full...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: * The Moviegoer * | 4/27/1939 | See Source »

Last night Skip declared that today's contest will be a "good indication for the rest of the season, and will certainly be decided by a very close score...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Varsity Stickmen Will Have Tight Game With M.I.T. Ten | 4/26/1939 | See Source »

...little red schoolhouse, which with the little white church formed the basis of the early West, is now doing a good deal better than the white church. In fact on the edge of one out of five typical western county seat towns, a small college has grown up with half a dozen buildings, a stadium, and cars parked all over the lot," he added...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: WHITE CLAIMS MIDDLE CLASS DOMINANT OVER ALMOST ALL THE WEST | 4/26/1939 | See Source »

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