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Word: guested (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...which is now out raising $15,000 for materials. "It is," said Old Peg, "a figure with . . . a pointed beard, inclosed in an aviator's helmet and having, beneath the chin, a sort of bib or drool cloth. The hands are upraised in the standard posture of the guest of honor at a stickup and the figure then declines, round, rigid as a concrete pipe and innocent of fold or human line, to the waist, where it disappears into a bar rel. ... I, personally, will undertake tc set to work . . . and make a better statue of St. Francis...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: San .Francisco's Saint | 8/29/1938 | See Source »

...months ago, after a rowdy guest night at nearby Larkhill Artillery School, four 20-year-old second lieutenants were seized with an inspiration to improve on antiquity. Next morning, for the first time in 1,000 years, the rays of the rising sun discovered a new glory in Stonehenge. A glistening coat of green paint instead of dull lichens covered ancient dolmens. Atop great menhirs sat shining chamber pots...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Druidical Sacrilege | 8/22/1938 | See Source »

...play gone stale, down to his last $391.23, Philip Whitlock abandons his retreat in the Canadian woods, goes to visit the Marstons, owners of the wire factory in a one-industry town in Connecticut, and stays on in their guest house. The fateful Marstons are a gruesome miniature of the capitalist world as left-wing thinkers see it. After seeing a great deal of it, Philip decides this environment is too much for him. But on the day he intends to clear out for Oregon he gets involved in an eviction, lands in the hospital with a fractured skull...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Violent Salvation | 8/22/1938 | See Source »

Nelson Eddy (Sun. 8 p.m., NBC-Red) returns to the cast of the Chase & Sanborn Hour from concert tour. Guest star: John Barrymore...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Programs Previewed: Aug. 8, 1938 | 8/8/1938 | See Source »

...titles of Ph.D. theses are typical of the lists which proud mothers thumbed last June as their sons stuck their necks out for the bright hoods of the Doctorate of Philosophy. Last week in Manhattan, Edgar Wallace Knight, Ph.D.,* Kenan professor of education at the University of North Carolina, guest professor at Teachers College, Columbia University, generally recognized as one of the South's leading teachers of teachers, delivered a diatribe against "fetish worship" of Ph.D. degrees. The old story he told his audience (most of whom were graduate students on the road to a doctorate): that Ph.D. degrees...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Doctor on Doctorates | 8/8/1938 | See Source »

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