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Word: nothingness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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First of all, none of the words used in the song . . . were intended to have any particular meaning. Last October, Jerry Brandow and Larry Kent, two comedian-dancers, played a "lick" for me to which the words "Hold-tight, hold-tight, hold-tight, hold-tight -want some seafood mama ! Shrimpers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, May 15, 1939 | 5/15/1939 | See Source »

All children are afraid of the night; when they grow up, they are still afraid, but more afraid of admitting it. In this frightening darkness men lie down to sleep and dream. Generations of diviners, black magicians, fortune tellers and poets have made night and dreams their province, interpreting the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BOOKS: Night Thoughts | 5/8/1939 | See Source »

But no observer of his life and works can fail to note that James Joyce is a typical Irishman. Born in Dublin, he remains as Irish in Paris or Trieste as he was in the city of his birth. His friends believe that nothing short of a European war could...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BOOKS: Night Thoughts | 5/8/1939 | See Source »

Any addition to the mountain of ballyhoo released about G.B. S's movie debut would be worse than futile, but taking "Pygmalion" alone, and shaving off the fringe of grey whiskers, the finished product is a very engaging and witty comedy. It is too bad that the movie is presented...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Moviegoer | 5/8/1939 | See Source »

The ancient question of the legitimacy of university tutoring has recently been reviewed by the Harvard Crimson and, as the system is conducted there, found to be a definite evil. With a request to other Harvard publications to refuse tutoring school advertisements the Cambridge daily formally declared war on the...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: TUTORING TROUBLES | 5/8/1939 | See Source »

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