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Word: lined (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Clinton's attempts at being original. Benny Goodman imitates Count Basic; but at least he has the courtesy to put Basic's name down as the author of the music he is playing. Clinton does (and badly) Pine Top Smith's "Boogie Woogie Blues," and on the credit line in resplendent dignity is Larry Clinton. The band seems to reflect all this in its playing. It plays without any life, any dig. The soloists are all uniformly uninspired with the exception of the tenor man who occasionally works passably...

Author: By Michael Levin, | Title: Swing | 3/24/1939 | See Source »

...line with this pamphlet was a motion introduced by Cambridge Councilman Michael Sullivan that University authorities investigate the placards placed on House bulletin boards last week deriding the fall of the Spanish "Reds...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Anti-Semitism Decried By Three Instructors in Recently Issued Book | 3/23/1939 | See Source »

...While New York Sleeps" (and the audience takes a few cat-naps too)--is a tawdry murder story hot off the Hollywood assembly line. Ford can do it but Hollywood...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Moviegoer | 3/23/1939 | See Source »

...thing in Mr, Rubenstein is the three-dimensional solidity of his bodies. It is evident in his muscular studies, as "Thor" and "Hand Grenade Throwers," and in the fine plastic anatomy of his faces, particularly "Negro's Head" where greatest strength is centered in the eyes. His sense of line is splendid. It is strong, almost fiercely so, in his pastels, but more subtle and still as effective in such drawings as "Gobs." The two sailors with hands in pocket at the lower left and the pugnacious face at top-center are marvels of characterization. In that native young animal...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Collections & Critiques | 3/21/1939 | See Source »

Taking the line that both Canada and Australia desired to be independent, the barnstorming men from "down under," who have debated 52 American and Canadian colleges in the course of their tour, claimed that the word Empire was a contradiction in terms and had been greatly weakened by the abdication of popular Edward VIII...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Australian Debaters Engage Council on British Empire | 3/20/1939 | See Source »

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