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Word: ladyes (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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A good play is rarely so constructed that one character monopolizes audience attention. When an actress reaches Miss Cornell's stature, however, her public demands that she appear in starring vehicles. Among the best known of Miss Cornell's earlier plays are such bravura works as The Green...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jan. 25, 1937 | 1/25/1937 | See Source »

Last week a lady made news when she sent some 200 tons of bricks by parcel post from Philadelphia to a U. S. Army reservation some 31 mi. southwest of Louisville. Ky. The lady was the Director of the U. S. Mint, Nellie Tayloe Ross. The bricks were about $200...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CABINET: Gold Storage | 1/25/1937 | See Source »

By last week the attitude of the arriving Briton was more like that of rich and alert Lady Rhondda who, arriving on the Aquitania, said: "The threat of war is so near and so constant and so inescapable that all England feels it. It is not something remote, as war...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Blown to Bits'' | 1/25/1937 | See Source »

It would seem that the Renaissance of Women is but a recent phase in the trend of history, Jane Bennet, the beauteous daughter of a country-squire Bennet, and one of three sisters, nearly pines to death over a lost love in a manner that highly smacks of "days of...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Crimson Playgoer | 1/19/1937 | See Source »

"Most of the students are reasonable because they know that the ushers are their equals and not the type hired by Keith's Memorial. Of course, when some of the fellows have five or six ales under their belts they're a bit hard to handle. If a fellow is...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Ushering at University Theatre No Sinecure According to Staff Member | 1/19/1937 | See Source »

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