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Word: mr (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Presiding at the meeting was Robert L. Green '39 acting in his position as Second Marshal while Charles Townsend Copeland, Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory Emeritus served as usual in his position as honorary judge. The judges were Mr. Mark Anthony DeWolfe Howe, Mr. William James and Archibald MacLeish, curator of the Nieman collection of contemporary journalism...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FINALS OF BOYLSTON SPEAKING PRIZE HELD | 3/30/1939 | See Source »

...influence of the outer world of science and of current political happenings on Einstein his biographer skilfully handles, intermingling interesting data and anecdotes with the main thread of his narrative. However, in the case of the great man's exile from his homeland, Mr. Garbedian goes too far in his digressions. His rather long description of Hitler's rise to power makes the book lose in effectiveness in assuming the aspect of a general history...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CRIMSON BOOKSHELF | 3/29/1939 | See Source »

...cast, who really couldn't help themselves. They have placed themselves in the hands of a director who through ignorance violates the spirit of college theatricals. Their fellow clubmen have given them a fine score, good lyrics, a passable book and amusing stage sets; if they remind Mr. Lilley that he is not directing for Earl Carroll, they can make a good show out of it before it hits Boston. Even if they don't it will still be fair enough...

Author: By C. L. B., | Title: The Playgoer | 3/28/1939 | See Source »

...Newark, N. J., Sidney A. Fortel, 36, linen-supply dealer who makes a specialty Mr. Sidney A. Fortel wishes to announce that on the seventeenth or eighteenth of June a Son will be born to Mrs. Sidney A. Fortel

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Mar. 27, 1939 | 3/27/1939 | See Source »

...violence spreads, Perse's lovely wife leaves him. His affair with the sensual daughter of his good friend, Mr. Christian, ends bitterly. He defends a grower on a charge of murdering a neighbor, gets him off, but finds his client was guilty and had framed an innocent man. The Association fails, and so does Perse: "The reason for things is gone. . . . Like flood water going down and leaving trash and stuff up in a tree...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Tobacco War | 3/27/1939 | See Source »

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