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Word: murrays (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...time record at the Union when he devoured 18 successive ice creams, 12 strawberries and six vanillas, after a full course evening meal. Although Union officials revealed that they would look with ill favor on any more record tries in the eating line, it was revealed that Miss Murray, Union commandant, had allowed Mitchell his attempt...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FRESHMAN SETS RECORD BY DEVOURING 18 ICE CREAMS | 10/8/1937 | See Source »

...three acts of solid suspense, piffling but none the loss deadly, John Murray and Allen Boretz's "Room Service" surpasses the most lugubrious of tragedies. In fact, although it is farcical throughout and even borders on the slap-stick, it threatens more than once to drop off into sheer disaster. It has to do with the now familiar theme of putting on a show, but the hopelessness of the predicaments into which the youthful producer breezes is amazingly original. Those dilemmas are also uproarious, except that there is grave danger lest the sympathetic souls in the audience become too busy...

Author: By E. C. B., | Title: The Crimson Playgoer | 10/5/1937 | See Source »

...Toronto Exchange fell sharply with the New York market. Next day Gladstone Murray, chairman of Canadian Broadcasting Corp., announced that stockmarket commentators would henceforth be banned from the air. Reason: "We've had too many complaints from people who've taken advice from some of these commentaries...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Crash! Crash! Crash! | 9/20/1937 | See Source »

...Arthur Murray, who was also making a cinema short for Educational Pictures. A Negro Big Apple troupe was assembled in Harlem and the South, sent out to tour the U. S. with Ted Wallace's Swing Band. And two different tunes, both called The Big Apple, were on best-selling phonograph record lists of the week...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Big Apple | 9/13/1937 | See Source »

...brought his face nearer to his interlocutor and spat slightly as he became emphatic. Finally he would wipe himself up so to speak and become suddenly immobile again, with his face interrogative and a little askew." . . . "No one could be so learned and wise and clever as Dr. Nicholas Murray Butler is certified to be by practically all the universities in the world. It's too much." And he can still clap down the nutshell on the elusive generality-this one is Life: "Dusty grayish events with a lot of rather forced laughter and streaks of downright painful...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Spark Plug | 9/13/1937 | See Source »

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