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Word: ladyes (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Upstairs and downstairs and into the First Lady's chamber went two workmen last week, lugging shiny green holly wreaths, one for each window of the White House. Downstairs all was Christmas rush. Bookkeeper Henry Nesbitt listed stacks of early gifts; Housekeeper Mrs. Nesbitt thumbed over the State linen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Green Christmas | 12/25/1939 | See Source »

Du Barry Was a Lady (music & lyrics by Cole Porter; produced by B. G. De Sylva). First show in four years to charge $7.70 on opening night (with seats being scalped at $50 and $75 a pair), Du Barry Was a Lady swept into Manhattan last week with a tremendous...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Musical in Manhattan: Dec. 18, 1939 | 12/18/1939 | See Source »

The fanfare was a trifle excessive. Many a musical has been fresher, cleverer, more original; several Cole Porter shows have had wittier lyrics, catchier tunes. But as a splendiferous version of regulation musicomedy Du Barry Was a Lady is all there. Its costumes are gorgeous, its goings-on boisterous. Its...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Musical in Manhattan: Dec. 18, 1939 | 12/18/1939 | See Source »

Du Barry Was a Lady tells of a washroom attendant who wins $75,000 in a sweepstakes and tries to marry a nightclub singer. He drinks a Mickey Finn intended for his rival, and dreams that he is Louis XV and the singer Du Barry. This permits an unsurpassably false...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Musical in Manhattan: Dec. 18, 1939 | 12/18/1939 | See Source »

Glittering in a gold-sequined gown, her hair swept up, her feet in spun-glass slippers, Marva Trotter Louis, wife of Heavyweight Boxing Champion Joe Louis, officiated at the coronation of St. Louis' Negro society king and queen. Introduced as "leader of Chicago society . . . America's premier lady...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Dec. 18, 1939 | 12/18/1939 | See Source »

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