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Word: lu (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...furnish a supply pastor on Sunday, ruled that, according to a U. S. Supreme Court decision, the church belonged not to the congregation but to the General Assembly. To those edicts the Machenites bowed. On Sunday 700 of Central North Broad's members worshipped with their pastor in Lu Lu Temple...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Exit Machen | 6/22/1936 | See Source »

...Ernest," said his good friend President Lucian ("Lu") Schlimgen of the Memorial Craftsmen, "borders on being a genius...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Memorialists | 2/24/1936 | See Source »

...Good Fairy, Lu (Helen Hayes) describes herself as ''an unemployed glow-worm," which means that she is a cinemansion usheress out of work. She meets a rich industrialist who wants her for his mistress. Spectators are asked to believe that Lu likes the idea largely because she will be able to become the benefactress of some unknown man, anybody. From her chrysalis the big-hearted glowworm emerges as a good fairy. She picks up a telephone directory, looks up the name of a lawyer, tells her patron that he is her husband and that she will expect...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Dec. 7, 1931 | 12/7/1931 | See Source »

...whom she has picked to befriend turns out to be a fusty, impoverished old codger (Walter Connolly) whose sense of honor recoils at first from the idea. But the glowworm eventually convinces him. Unhappily, Lu does not feel obliged to make everybody happy. She goes off with a head waiter instead of her industrialist...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Dec. 7, 1931 | 12/7/1931 | See Source »

...Producer Gilbert Miller steps out in front of the curtain and pays a somewhat backhanded compliment to his audience. He says that he has asked Herr Molnar to write a more enlightening sequel for the U. S. edition of the play. The sequel shows the characters ten years later. Lu has married. Whom? Naturally the last one of the six male characters you would expect...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Dec. 7, 1931 | 12/7/1931 | See Source »

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