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Word: mans (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...handsome young foreman's photograph as his own; of the girl's disillusionment on seeing him, her going through with the marriage, her transgression with the foreman. It is a triangle story solved by arithmetic, not geometry. The girl most wants a home, the old man a wife, the young man his freedom. So Playwright Howard, without cynicism, urges his bewildered people to be sensible, and quietly laughs melodrama and heroics off the stage...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: Old Play in Manhattan: Oct. 16, 1939 | 10/16/1939 | See Source »

Four years ago, when Emil Hurja was a Democratic statistician quietly estimating how many votes his boss would get for the Presidency, his staff in Washington included a young man named James Twohey. It was Mr. Twohey's job to analyze newspaper opinions, turn them into charts and figures for Mr. Hurja...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: What Were They Saying? | 10/16/1939 | See Source »

Frank Gervasi, onetime I. N. S. man, last week got permission to go for Collier's; then at week's end his authorization was canceled. Reason: other magazines had equal rights with Collier's, twelve U. S. newsmen had been set as a limit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Green Felt and Gold C | 10/16/1939 | See Source »

...notch cow pokes miss the Broadway roundup. With luck one man can win $4,000 at the Garden while his wife gets the Broadway permanent she has been dying for. Some wives perform at the Garden too (almost all rodeos have women's bronc-riding contests). But the girl who made even the cowboys sit up-and take notice last week was a rich Texas rancher's daughter, svelte, 17-year-old Sydna Yokley, who put on as spunky an exhibition of calf roping as has ever been seen east of Powder River: throwing and tying a calf...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Career Cowboys | 10/16/1939 | See Source »

...Fayetteville, Ark., Texas Christian, undefeated and untied last year, showed that they missed little Davey O'Brien-the one-man gang of 1938 (now playing professional football for the Philadelphia Eagles)-as they lost their opening Conference game to Arkansas...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Football, Oct. 16, 1939 | 10/16/1939 | See Source »

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