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Word: guys (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...have some new material to add to their ever-welcome, hysterical acts, "Wood," "Money" and "The Hot Patata." Hoarse-voiced Jimmie Durante, as a college professor at Sing Sing, is advised by Hope Williams: "You've got to shoot your way to freedom!" Says he: "Who is this guy Friedman, a lawyer?" The New Yorkers provides a long and entertaining evening. Alison's House. Susan Glaspell has written a play about famed Poetess Emily Dickinson (1830-86) for Eva Le Gallienne's Civic Repertory Theatre. Playwright Glaspell's Emily Dickinson is Alison Stanhope, who lived...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Dec. 15, 1930 | 12/15/1930 | See Source »

...South Seas and remaining with his sweetheart (Frances Torchiana), both families being longtime friends. Throughout this tale of youthful self-sacrifice are interpolated visitors to the estaminet: a pompous ferryboat commander who is touchy on the subject of his wife's fidelity; the roguish, lovable saloonkeeper; able Guy Kibbee (late mortuary supply salesman of Torch Song) who is in love with Miss Torchiana. Marseilles is not a particularly strong play, but it is worth seeing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Dec. 1, 1930 | 12/1/1930 | See Source »

...item in the will of the late Sir Guy Francis William Laking, 26, filed in Lon don, read: "To my Friend Tallulah Bankhead [actress, daughter of Congressman William Brockman Bankhead of Alabama], all my motor-cars...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Nov. 24, 1930 | 11/24/1930 | See Source »

Today English children wait for Guy Fawkes' Day with its fireworks and burnings-in-effigy as eagerly as U. S. tots yearn for July 4. English lexicographers know that to "do a guy" is to "do a bunk" or "decamp." As a noun "guy" means in England any sort of effigy or grotesque figure. The following example of correct usage of this noun is classic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Wenzel Number Four | 11/17/1930 | See Source »

...guessed, that Wenzel guy harpoons a girl that's young and spry

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Wenzel Number Four | 11/17/1930 | See Source »

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