Search Details

Word: kay (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

Selzniclc's Headache. Seventy-five years after the defeated Confederates trudged out of Atlanta singing Maryland, My Maryland, Producer David 0. Selznick received one of the most ecstatic business telegrams ever sent. It was sent by Kay (for Katherine) Brown, Eastern Story Editor of Selznick International Pictures. She said: "We have just airmailed detailed synopsis of Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell, also copy of book. ... I beg, urge, coax and plead with you to read this at once. I know that after you read the book you will drop everything...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: G With the W | 12/25/1939 | See Source »

Among cheerleaders who were born too soon to get their crossed megaphones: Band Leader Kay Kyser, whose North Carolina cheerios of 1927 set an alltime high note in Southern cheerleading...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: All-America | 12/11/1939 | See Source »

...McLoughlin, Bob Jay (last year's Freshman captain) and Kay Rogers took eighth, ninth, and tenth places. Jim Lightbody, quarter-miler, who will captain this year's, track team, registered in twelfth place...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harvard Harriers Smear Holy Cross, Taking Seven Out of First Ten Spots | 10/21/1939 | See Source »

...Gold. Horace Heidt's kampuskut orchestra has been rah-rahing since 1923, but has had to play frequent second fiddle to such fraternity-row favorites as Fred Waring, Kay Kyser. But this season, sponsored by Turns, a carminative, Horace Heidt's Musical Knights went out in front with a burp. During Turns' Tuesday night half hour, a wheel of fortune is ceremoniously spun several times, eventually coming to rest on a telephone number somewhere in the U. S. A call is put in for the unnamed subscriber. The band plays on, but when the phone is answered...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Rainbow's End | 10/16/1939 | See Source »

...looking for records, the Square is well stocked with stores which despite a surplus of Kay Kayser, manage to keep a pretty satisfying stock on hand. Well-founded rumor has it that an attempt is being made to found a real swing club at Harvard with record concerts and demonstrations by some of the country's best. And then the House Committees always slip up occasionally and get a good band for one of the House dances...

Author: By Michael Levin, | Title: Swing | 9/30/1939 | See Source »

| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | Next