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Word: likings (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Most of the actors were too weary to have any feeling of nervousness about the opening tonight. Tru so darn tired now all I want to do is like down and go to sleep mingled one of them...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Curtain Rises on New Show Tonight | 12/14/1939 | See Source »

...enough, because there should have been eighty-three. It was the thirty candles which showed how old eighty-three is. The huge white birthday cake wasn't up to the job it had undertaken; it was slacking with only thirty candles, or something like that, and probably the exact number didn't even have any mathematical relationship to eighty-three. Eighty-three is very...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE VAGABOND | 12/14/1939 | See Source »

...shrugs or maybe even sneers and if it does have a feeling of respect it is only because of an externally imposed habit and not because of an honest spontaneous sentiment. Usually, perhaps, but that was not so tonight. In these surroundings it was impossible not to feel something like awe for that figure slowly getting up to cut the cake...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE VAGABOND | 12/14/1939 | See Source »

...discouraging impression that since then he has been losing himself almost as rapidly as hopelessly. Then he was a man who was full of faith and sureness, who could say about the deaths of Mio and Miriamme: "This is the glory of both men and women." Perhaps things like that were easier to say and believe a few years ago than now--but it is hardly a happy sight to face a stark demonstration of that fact...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Playgoer | 12/13/1939 | See Source »

...might expect from a group made up of amateurs even to the conductors. The outstanding job was done by the Radcliffe Madrigal Group in the three carols for women's voices, but the execution of the whole program was on a surprisingly high level. The concert and others like it in the one of the most enjoyable types of undergraduate activity...

Author: By L. C. Hoivlk, | Title: The Music Box | 12/12/1939 | See Source »

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