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Word: maines (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...funny part about the incident is that I own and operate the Main Line Golf Driving Range at Ardmore and have been dodging golf balls for 10 years without getting hit. then I take an afternoon off to see the finish of the U. S. Open Championship and, "whack!", Craig Wood's brassie shot on the 18th lands me in the Bryn Mawr Hospital where I have been ever since...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jul. 3, 1939 | 7/3/1939 | See Source »

...this week finished widening the main street of Forest Hills, L. I., home of U. S. championship tennis. So surprised, pleased, grateful were 125 merchants by the speed and skill with which the work was done, that they invited the 100-odd workers to eat cold cuts, drink beer at a local roof garden...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Gratitude | 7/3/1939 | See Source »

...Main feat of this cinema was not in thus delicately bringing Tarzan a son, but in concealing the fact that Maureen O'Sullivan (Mrs. John Villiers Farrow) was to have one of her own almost as soon as the film was finished. Cinemactress O'Sullivan undertook the role three and a half months before her child was expected, finished the job with only a month to spare. Cameraman Leonard Smith shot Miss O'Sullivan behind fern fronds, through leafy screens, at respectful distances, permitted his camera to drop no hint of her own infanticipation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Jun. 26, 1939 | 6/26/1939 | See Source »

This week NBC hoped it had hit upon the right medicine-Fred Waring and his Pennsylvanians, a 70-man band of glittering trumpetry, up-to-date stomp and freestyle, everybody-sing chorusing. Main reason that Fred Waring is considered a likely antidote to Amos 'n' Andy is that his orchestra has always played to the whole crowd, has never gone too hot or too sweet for catholic tastes. Says Fred: "If anything looks good...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Fred Waring, Inc. | 6/26/1939 | See Source »

...Waring is still considered one of the gang but spends most of his time practicing for a debut as a concert baritone. Fred directs production, helps write continuity, coaches the gang in rehearsal ("come lively," "stay with me," "give it rapture!"), plays golf in the 705 as his main relaxation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Fred Waring, Inc. | 6/26/1939 | See Source »

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