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Word: offing (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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A preacher and a doctor entered. They agreed that alcohol was a bad thing. Curtain, followed by Where is My Wandering Boy Tonight? by a male quartet. Then a shorter play, a real tearjerker, in which five youngsters watched the town drunk. Old Joe Sharp, having D. T.s-he had snakes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Bishop v. Drink | 12/18/1939 | See Source »

Author of these plays, written for radio and church performance, and acted last week on the platform in a church in Boulder, Colo., was a masterful, mannish-voiced gynotheocrat, Bishop Alma White, 77. Once a Methodist, wife of a preacher, Mrs. White read herself out of her church because it...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Bishop v. Drink | 12/18/1939 | See Source »

So Charles finally sat down and wrote a book* showing how nice and refined the Shaws were, how they had a proper schooling, visited in high-class homes, Did Things in the world, had knights in the family. One of them was even immortalized (titteringly) in Gilbert & Sullivan's...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: Shaw v. Shaw | 12/18/1939 | See Source »

Type of true love kept under.†

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: Shaw v. Shaw | 12/18/1939 | See Source »

On the whole, Bernard's Brethren was a not very lively job of escutcheon-polishing. Fortunately Bernard got his mitts on the MS before it was published, and characteristically proceeded to make comments in the margin, restoring family grease stains as fast as Charles rubbed them out. His marginal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: Shaw v. Shaw | 12/18/1939 | See Source »

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