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Word: handsful (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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To scare anyone out of the idea, Capek takes a poor, benighted nihilist, lets him blow up the world, and start all over again. Adam, the nihilist, proceeds to get himself mixed up with a clinging vine, mass production, Nazism, Communism, religion, and democracy, and in the end passes the...

Author: By W. E. H., | Title: CRIMSON PLAYGOER | 11/2/1939 | See Source »

Inside the lobby of the Hall, twelve architectural students were found putting on a pre-Halloween masquerade. Seated on three rows of stools, the would-be spooks groaned and stamped with their hands and feet in adoration of a jack o' lantern hung high on the wall.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Ghost of John Harvard Stalks Yard As Architecture Students Play Spook | 10/31/1939 | See Source »

In The Man Who Came to Dinner (produced by Sam H. Harris), George S. Kaufman & Moss Hart had a smash hit on their hands. Tale of a famous lecturer who goes to a dull dinner-party in an Ohio town, gets hurt, and has to stay on in the house...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: Harts & Flowers | 10/30/1939 | See Source »

From Father Coughlin's critics the cry continues: Why doesn't the Catholic Church crack down on him? The answer is obvious. The Church's ranking leaders undeniably distrust and disapprove of the radio priest, but doing something about him might leave them with a schism on...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: No Picketing | 10/30/1939 | See Source »

Wells urges his favorite project of a new World Encyclopaedia or "World Brain," but his sense of humor bitterly tells him that even if endowed it might fall into the hands of Nicholas Murray Butler. "I am impatient and at the same time I do not know how to accelerate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Pre-War | 10/30/1939 | See Source »

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