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Word: hawthorns (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Also imported from London with Veteran Buchanan are Evelyn Laye and Adele Dixon, the unreasonable lasses who refuse to share one man's love. Both of them pour forth their hearts like English skylarks, both are pretty as English hawthorn. Vilma Ebsen,* an all-American periwinkle, dances engagingly with Charles Walters...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: New Musicals in Manhattan: Jan. 3, 1938 | 1/3/1938 | See Source »

...trouble. But Hellenistic Commodore Patterson brought his statue safely home, presented it to the flourishing young Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in Philadelphia. For more than 40 years it stood in the Academy's courtyard at Tenth and Chestnut Streets under ''the largest hawthorn tree in America...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Earth Mother | 8/9/1937 | See Source »

...British Museum's most popular treasures. Keeper of Oriental Antiquities Robert Lockhart Hobson was most excited about a green bronze ram dating from 1200 B. c. and valued at ?10,000. And there was plenty more: Ming vases. T'ang burial figures, carved jades, Hawthorn jars, gold, bronze and ivory figures, in all about 3,000 pieces bought for Britain this month at a cost of ?100,000 from a faun-faced elderly Greek named George Eumorfopoulos...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Princely Gesture | 1/28/1935 | See Source »

...truck driver. His ami was stretched through the second fence when, like a cat after a bird, a lion leaped, sank its great fangs, pulled him down into the pit. Three other lions pounced. While onlookers screamed helplessly, the lions dragged Stanley Stenson off into a clump of English hawthorn, crunched him to death...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: At Whipsnade | 6/18/1934 | See Source »

Last night's performance, under the management of N. P. Farquhar '32, was played by the following cast: Mrs. Persimmons, W. O. Faxon '32; Mrs. Hawkins, Sturtevant Burr '31; Mrs. Migrain, Francis Hoague '31; Mac Truck, N. P. Farquhar '32; Tommy Hawthorn, S. C. Dorman '33; Brock Kerreth, P. S. Carter '34; "Hermes" Austin, R. B. Harrison '32; Betty Landingstone, R. W. Kuhl '32; Anita Gale, J. H. Pearson '32; radio announcer, W. M. Marvel '30; reporter, Arthur Barrett...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PI ETA TO PRESENT MUSICAL COMEDY OF COLLEGE TONIGHT | 3/18/1932 | See Source »

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