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Word: lording (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Dealing with the story of an American woman who predominates a roll in the hay with Lord Howe so that Washington's troops may receive support and retreat, Lewis Meltzer's play meanders through two dull acts, rears its head for a final gasp in the third, and then dies a miserable death...

Author: By V. F. Jr., | Title: The Playgoer | 10/20/1938 | See Source »

Perhaps it is the fault of the audience; or perhaps it is the fault of John Williams who takes two acts to warm up as Lord Howe...

Author: By V. F. Jr., | Title: The Playgoer | 10/20/1938 | See Source »

...Lord Howe never gets satisfaction from his Yankee gal, and whether she really loves him or not is a point lost in confusion. Barry Sullivan is an American spy is adequate, and Maxine Stuart as his betrothed is pleasant enough. Eda Heinemann as the matron's servant is the only convincing personality on the stage...

Author: By V. F. Jr., | Title: The Playgoer | 10/20/1938 | See Source »

...record as more liberal than most other Lutheran bodies. Chief point: "We [do not] place all parts of Scripture on one plane. They have their more important and their less important parts, and the measure of their importance must always be the closeness of their relation to Christ, our Lord...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Lutherans & Unity | 10/17/1938 | See Source »

Last week Dr. Sharp began to build a fourth LIFE Camp on a real frontier-a pocket of virgin forest only 68 miles from Manhattan. The site: a 1,000-acre tract in the Kittatinny Mountains of northern New Jersey. Part of an estate given to Lord Rutherford by King George III in pre-Revolutionary times, the tract was presented to LIFE Camps by anonymous donors. It abounds in deer, wild fruit and nuts, has a 40-acre lake (Mashi-pacong), is surrounded by 25,000 acres of State parks and forests. With stone and timber on the land...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: New Frontier | 10/17/1938 | See Source »

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