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Word: knowes (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Really, though I don't know any Harvard men, I like them a lot. I did say I hoped the stories in the paper weren't true, didn't I?" she continued, turning to her press agent for confirmation...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Ruth Etting, Ziegfeld's Glorified Girl, Picks Songs for the Amount of Heart Throbs They Have--Has Much Fan Mail | 10/18/1929 | See Source »

...pick my songs most of the time for the amount of 'heart throb' there is in them," she said. "You know, the kids like sob stuff...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Ruth Etting, Ziegfeld's Glorified Girl, Picks Songs for the Amount of Heart Throbs They Have--Has Much Fan Mail | 10/18/1929 | See Source »

Heartbreaking and poignant, no less. The glittering society miss pays dearly for her glitter. And the very inevitability of it all, the irresistability of the awful doom is what strikes you. We all know how much the debs would prefer to be educated, instead of just cultured, how much they'd give for an evening with Spinoza or Kant, or one at a concert or a less stylish but heavier play. Picture the deb, with all these thwarted intellectual desires--dancing, dancing her life away, and all because the omnipotent Moloch makes it clear that...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: DANCERS WITH FATE | 10/18/1929 | See Source »

...know, the audience does about fifty percent of the work in an ordinary performance. A good, hearty, infectious laugh out front will put a whole new aspect into the action on the stage. When you know that you have the audience with you the play fairly rolls along. But if the house is feeling glum, then you have to double your efforts and cheer them up--put them in the spirit of the thing. There can be no such close relationship between audience and actor in the talking pictures, and with that relationship most of the fascination of the stage...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE CRIMSON PLAYGOER | 10/16/1929 | See Source »

...know who or what the owners of the decorated flivyer are but it does seem as though the Institute of 1770, after all these years, would have attained sophistication enough to put aside childish things...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE MAIL | 10/16/1929 | See Source »

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