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Word: ladyes (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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"I anchored the horrific hippogriff close to the path which Col. Mann's boat would have to take. . . . [When the boat passed near by] I released the monster. It came up nobly. . . . Mr. Davies [Acton Davies, onetime dramatic critic of the New York Sun] who had a rather high...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Lie & Monster | 5/7/1934 | See Source »

Besides owning horses, Colonel Bradley has owned tracks. He spent more than $1,000,000 improving the Fair Grounds at New Orleans, sold out in 1932 and bought heavily into Joseph E. Widener's Hialeah Park at Miami. His feelings about horses themselves are a strange mixture of sentimentality...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: St. Edward of Lexington | 5/7/1934 | See Source »

The plain man-in-the-street sometimes feels that William Shakespeare never existed at all as a real person, or that perhaps he actually was Francis Bacon or an incarnation of Ignatius Donnelly in disguise. Most experts agree, however, that William Shakespeare of Stratford-on-Avon was the Shakespeare of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Dark Lady | 5/7/1934 | See Source »

In one respect, at least, this must be considered the most significant play presented at Harvard for many a year. An amateur production which can boast among its designers Virgil Thomson, collaborator with Gertrude Stein in that lady's only opera, and Joe Losey, director of "Lil' Ole Boy," is...

Author: By G. R. C., | Title: CRIMSON PLAYGOER | 5/3/1934 | See Source »

Glenn Martin was fiddling with bicycles at home in Santa Ana, Calif, in 1903 when the Wright brothers made historic news at Kitty Hawk. By 1907 he was able to build himself a glider and a year later he was the third man in the world to fly a heavier...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Martin Into Market | 4/30/1934 | See Source »

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