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Word: motif (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...place on two walls of the Synagog were ten large murals depicting the Ten Commandments. They were painted in true fresco by A. (for Alexander) Raymond Katz, 40, a Hungarian-born Jew who leads a Jewish art movement in the U. S. with the Hebrew alphabet as its central motif...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Orthodox Mural | 9/30/1935 | See Source »

...theatre season with lots of fuss, little fun. This year's Carrolling is supposed to represent in 50 scenes a U. S. chorine's idea of her nation's past. The doll-voices of a bevy of "the most beautiful girls in the world" inaugurate this motif by squealing in unison...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Play in Manhattan: Jun. 17, 1935 | 6/17/1935 | See Source »

...Class of 1935 will be the first to receive the new style of diplomas done in a seventeenth century motif, according to an announcement by Samuel E. Morison '09, professor of History, who is chairman of the committee in charge of revision. New designs will be drawn for other degrees as soon as the present supplies of these degrees are exhausted...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Seniors First to Receive New Model Diplomas After 17th Century Design | 5/3/1935 | See Source »

Adams House will blossom forth again on Saturday evening with a novelty dance of circus motif. There will be dinner dancing from 7 to 12 o'clock with Ned Marshall's Orchestra. Patronesses will be Mrs. James P. Baxter, III, Mrs. Donald H. Wallace, and Mrs. Kenneth J. Conant...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Adams Will Give Informal Circus Dance Saturday Night | 4/10/1935 | See Source »

...PERFECT ALIBI-C. St. John Sprigg -Crime Club ($2). All suspects have alibis when the armament king is murdered. Best are those of killer and victim, which are pierced when a smart young reporter helps the police. Jekyll-and-Hyde motif...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Murders of the Month: Dec. 31, 1934 | 12/31/1934 | See Source »

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