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Word: greenes (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Spaniards from Admiral Cervera's burning squadron off Santiago in 1898 and for commanding the naval transport Plattsburg 20 years later. Gobs who wondered whether CINCUS Bloch would be as stern a disciplinarian as CINCUS Hepburn were last week enlightened by his sister, Mrs. Stella Bloch of Bowling Green, Ky.: "He is sensitive, studious, generous to a fault but always ready to fight when teased...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: New CINCUS | 11/22/1937 | See Source »

...Grande do Sul bailiwick of swashbuckling Governor José Flores da Cunha, whom President Vargas had to replace with a Federal military interventor. A temporary lifting of the state of war for campaign purposes soon had Brazil's Leftists noisily at the throat of Brazil's green-shirted Fascist Integralistas, whose leader Plinio Salgado wears a Hitler mustache and advocates in misty Portuguese a "corporative State." Last fortnight more serious trouble appeared. The Departmento Nacional do Café, which has destroyed $638,750,000 worth of Brazil's surplus coffee to keep up the world price, announced...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BRAZIL: Necessities | 11/22/1937 | See Source »

...Henderson, who played the piano for her Weeping Willow Blues, with Joe Smith on the cornet, calls this the greatest blues record ever made. Careless Love is W. C. Handy's arrangement of what is almost a U. S. folk song. Trombone Cholly, with the late Trombonist Charlie Green playing among Bessie Smith's "Blue Boys," is a classic for all connoisseurs of the "sliphorn." For Backwater Blues, James P. Johnson, teacher of "Fats" Waller, furnishes an able piano accompaniment. Only three of the twelve sides in the Bessie Smith Album are devoted to Broadway songs: Muddy Water...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Bessie's Blues | 11/22/1937 | See Source »

Died. Mrs. Leslie Carter, 75, for 16 years (1890-1906) David Belasco's leading lady in such turn-of-the-Century dramas as Zaza, Madame du Barry, Andrea; of heart trouble and pneumonia; in Santa Monica, Calif. Redhaired, green-eyed, emotional, Caroline Louise Dudley Carter, already 28 and divorced when Belasco gave her her first part in 1890, attained first & overnight fame five years later in The Heart of Maryland, in whose most spectacular scene she gripped the clapper of a huge bell 30 ft. above the stage, swung her body back & forth to mute its tones, saved...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Nov. 22, 1937 | 11/22/1937 | See Source »

...Frank," replied he, "Allen all it's a Green team but it may Russel around a bit. Wood you be surprised? Oh, Ewart, well...

Author: By Hu FLUNG Huey occ., | Title: BOSTON STRUCKS ELI, SAYS HUEY, STUART FOR BIG GAME | 11/20/1937 | See Source »

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