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Word: lead (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Metoyer's bier, that he might fight his way to joy with the heavenly Queen of the Amazon Islands. Mourners hoped that John Metoyer's boyhood friend and Zulu clubmember, famed Zulu Louis ("Satchelmouth") Armstrong, would come down from Manhattan's Harlem with his trumpet to lead the bands in There Never Was and There Never Will Be a King Like...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LOUISIANA: Coconuts | 12/4/1939 | See Source »

...proclamation has one objective: to gain Harvard support for the Russian position. After elaborating Russia's reasons for her attack on Finland, the proclamation adds a brief suggestion that Harvard should disregard the "American imperialists" who are "taking the lead in Chamberlain's anti-Soviet schemes." America must not accept the "pro-war hysteria" which aims to turn her against Russia...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MAIL | 12/2/1939 | See Source »

Miss Reta Hurley, a graduate of the Bishop Lee School, has been chosen for the lead role of Mona, a glamour girl in the play, which is a dramatic and musical interpretation of New York City life...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CAST CHOSEN FOR DRAMATIC CLUB'S NEW PRODUCTION | 12/1/1939 | See Source »

...bumper year for tackles, and two of the headliners, Nick Drahes and Tom Healey, lead the parade. Drahos of the Big Red, prominently mentioned for All-America honors is a fixture on the team, but Healey has only a slight edge over such worth- ies as George Sommers of Dartmouth and Bob Tierney of Princeton...

Author: By Joseph P. Lyford, Donald Peddle, and Sheffield West, S | Title: Cornell Places Four Men on Crimson 1939 All-Ivy Eleven | 12/1/1939 | See Source »

...performance. He screams and slobbers through the plot with remarkable gusto. The contrast of these two of his latest parts is really astonishing. As a sop to the earthy aesthetics of the masses, there is also a quite delectable blonde named Maleleine Ozeray who plays a quite unorthodox feminine lead to an antiquated lecher of the stage played by Louis Jouvet. The cast, as a whole, really carries the show. Their sensitivity to the ideas of author and director, combined with their own creativity, makes "End of a Day" deserve the recognition it has received...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Moviegoer | 11/27/1939 | See Source »

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