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Word: keys (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...party and himself on the back, and the revived memory of November could hardly have failed to infect him with extra self-confidence. This is the best excuse for the messianic tone of his remarks whose very perfection of delivery aroused enthusiasm and revulsion. No one quarrels with his key argument--that democracy must do more for the underprivileged--but the details of the redeal give pause to many...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE GHOST AT THE BANQUETS | 3/6/1937 | See Source »

...MOVIELAND, a Phi Beta Kappa key is about as useful as a recommendation from a high school dramatics coach, Franchot Tone wears the key from Cornell. As Earnest Sharpe, Actor Erik Rhodes earned one at the University of Oklahoma. Though he hasn't yet attained the eminence of Brother Tone, Erik Rhodes works just as steadily in pictures and in due time will make almost as much money. You saw him first as the dapper, sputtering foreigner in the Astaire Rogers film, Gay Divorce. He stayed in Hollywood to play in top Hat. New he is likely...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SPOTLIGHTER | 2/23/1937 | See Source »

...singer who could really put over Moonlight and Roses. Bing Crosby and Fred Mac Murray were singers at their colleges, too; they left without taking degrees. Rhodes went out with a Chautauqua company his senior year, but he finished his work b correspondence and won the Phi Bete key...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SPOTLIGHTER | 2/23/1937 | See Source »

...gets in and out of trouble in the East as well as in the West His adventures know no boundaries. American Racketeers or Chinese smugglers, all are his meat, For that reason another Phi Beta Kappa finds work in radio. She is Betty Ito, diminutive Chicagoan who earned her key at the University of Chicago. Betty is Japanese by ancestry, American by birth, but she plays a Chinese role in Jack Aumstrong's show...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SPOTLIGHTER | 2/23/1937 | See Source »

Safety First is the policy of the Richest Man, and in Hyderabad this continued to mean last week the flourishing reign of probably the ablest native government in India, with its key statesman Finance Minister the Nawab Sir Akbar Nazarally Hydari. During the cycle of Depression his famed "Three-Year Budgets'' have always balanced with a surplus and Hyderabad taxes have not been raised. Sir Akbar's system is to have an annual accounting of each Government Department provisionally, but to carry forward to a so-called "Grand Accounting" only every three years. He will close...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HYDERABAD: Silver Jubilee Durbar | 2/22/1937 | See Source »

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