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Word: mikes (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...week the 20,000 polo enthusiasts sitting in Meadow Brook's turquoise-blue stands realized-a little sadly-that even this, Britain's best-of-all teams since the War (Bob Skene, Aidan Roark, Gerald Balding, Eric Tyrrell-Martin) was no match for the U. S. four: Mike Phipps, Tommy Hitchcock, Stewart Iglehart, Winston Guest. Fortnight ago, in the first of the two-out-of-three-game series, they were trounced 11-to-7. Last week the drubbing was even worse. The U. S. side won, 9-to-4, retained the Cup that has not crossed the Atlantic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Westchester Cup | 6/19/1939 | See Source »

...Hollywood's Clover Club one night last week cafe society saw the nearest thing yet to a man biting a dog. Pretender Extraordinary Mike Romanoff, of Vilna, Russia, and/or Hillsboro, Ill., after some 20 years on cafe society's cuff, threw a party. The formal invitation, engraved with a big Imperial R, read: "To discharge his social obligations past and future, we have received commands from his Imperial Highness, Prince Michael Romanoff, to invite ( ) to a buffet supper on Saturday evening, June the tenth, at the Clover Club."; and continuing: "Guests will please bring their own liquor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Buffet Supper | 6/19/1939 | See Source »

...Hollywood Mike is a magnificent stooge in a place which can afford magnificent stooges. They laugh at his good-natured Oxonian pomposity, chuckle over his full assumed title, Prince Michael Alexandrovitch Dmitry Obolensky Romanoff, never use his real name, Harry Gerguson...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Buffet Supper | 6/19/1939 | See Source »

Name Three, a quiz show based on bank night, is a Monday night MBS half-hour sponsored by Dunhill Cigarettes. Candidates picked from the studio audience, asked to name, for example, three vegetables beginning with S, win $2 for each right answer. If a mike-scared quizee can think of spinach, cannot remember squash or salsify, he wins only $2, and the remaining $4 goes into a jackpot. Near the program's end the candidates get a chance to share the jackpot by writing answers to a Toughie (e.g., Name three State capitals named after Presidents). If there...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Spring Tryouts | 6/5/1939 | See Source »

Senior Joe Delaney, who doubles in the fall as a football tackle, will be the Holy Cross pitching starter. His battery mate will be veteran Dave Barry. Delaney and Mike Clarnick, who got credit for the victory over the Crimson in the first game, have accounted for the eight triumphs the team has scored this spring. They have been defeated four times...

Author: By Donald Peddle, | Title: Stahlmen Will Face Crusaders Tomorrow On Soldiers Field | 6/2/1939 | See Source »

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