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Word: letting (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...let me spend my life making...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: The Professional Amateur | 1/31/1949 | See Source »

...follow the trail of the brew as it grew lighter; they wound up in Pilsen. In 1935, Playwright Moss Hart got the idea of taking a world cruise and writing a show (Jubilee) on the way. He broached the idea to Porter at lunch. Recalls Hart: "Cole said: 'Let's go to Cook's.' By 3 o'clock, we had booked passage. By 5, we'd had our shots. Six days later we sailed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: The Professional Amateur | 1/31/1949 | See Source »

...look at TV in total darkness; have a light either overhead or behind the viewers, but don't let it shine directly on the screen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Some TV Don'ts | 1/31/1949 | See Source »

...rich old butcher offered to marry his eldest, Tevye had visions of living off his son-in-law. But instead, his daughter became engaged to a poor young tailor. "What kind of a world has this become?" asked Tevye. "A boy meets a girl and says to her, 'Let us pledge our troth.' Why, it's just too free and easy . . ." But Tevye gave in; he, too, had an eye for love...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Old Country | 1/31/1949 | See Source »

...chose to call himself Sholom Aleichem ("peace be unto you"). His stories, published in paper booklets, were passed from hand to hand among European Jews. When he died in The Bronx in 1916, more than 100,000 people lined the streets of his funeral procession. He had said: "Let me be buried among the poor, that their graves may shine on mine, and mine on theirs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Old Country | 1/31/1949 | See Source »

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