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Word: harps (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...centre foreground sits Harpo staring, sadly strumming on his harp. His hair is golden fuzz, interwoven with fuchsia flowers and gay green leaves. He is not surprised by the company of three attentive giraffes-their backs on fire. In the distance are eight more giraffes, also burning, trying to get away from their own heat by running...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Dali's Harpo | 12/12/1938 | See Source »

...thousand years hence, when historians gravely chronicle the 20th Century U. S. theatre, diving now & then into their glossaries for light on "strip-tease" or "meat show," they may wonder why, for a time, the theatre harped on human frailties- Follies, Vanities, Scandals-and then suddenly ceased to harp. They may perhaps write learned, ingenious essays describing the rise and fall of the morality play on Broadway, never dreaming that what they chronicled was the rise and fall of the musical show...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: The Boys From Columbia | 9/26/1938 | See Source »

Pepper Martin's Mudcats (Mon. 11:30 p. m., MBS). St. Louis Cardinals' swing band led by Outfielder Martin (guitar and mouth harp). Other members: Pitchers Lon Warneke (guitar), Bill McGee (violin), Lefty Weiland (jug), Outfielder Frenchy Bordagaray (washboard, auto horns...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Programs Previewed: Sep. 5, 1938 | 9/5/1938 | See Source »

...Mighty I AM Presence is probably the only U. S. faith whose custodians travel in a cream-colored limousine with a concert harp hitched on the rear. Mr. and Mrs. G. W. Ballard and Son Donald-as their printed literature invariably refers to them-claim to be the "Accredited Messengers" of a group of spirits whom they call the "Ascended Masters." These include Christ and Moses, but their most articulate spokesman is one "Saint Germain." St. Germain, says Mr. Ballard, appeared to him on Mt. Shasta eight years ago, gave him a drink of "creamy liquid" of which "the electrical...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Mighty I AM | 2/28/1938 | See Source »

...Ballard and Son Donald sell their followers pins, I AM rings ($12), phonograph records of the discourses of the Accredited Messengers (also harp solos by Mrs. Ballard), and pictures in all sizes of St. Germain, of Jesus Christ...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Mighty I AM | 2/28/1938 | See Source »

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