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Word: outlying (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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At last week's opening there was as much fun from out front as from the stage. When the cast went down into the aisles to dance a Boomps-a-Daisy with members of the audience, up rose Al Smith to tread a measure with alacrity and abandon, drew...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Explosion in Manhattan | 12/25/1939 | See Source »

Lancaster, Pa. is a thriving city with 60,000 inhabitants, six movie houses, but no theatre. No road company has played there since 1930. But, thanks to the enterprising Green Room Club of Lancaster's Franklin and Marshall College, the town is not left playless. Under the direction of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: Braver than Broadway | 12/25/1939 | See Source »

¶ When Boy Scouts or Girl Guides are assigned to "water detail," voices pipe up: "Stay out of those bushes"; "Be careful of the side of the barn."

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: Wrong Door, Wrong Door | 12/25/1939 | See Source »

Long lacking has been a concise, up-to-date, inexpensive encyclopedia of the theatre. The Theatre Handbook and Digest of Plays (Crown, $3), out last week, adequately fills the need. It is marred by too much sloppy writing and too many canned opinions; but inside its 900 pages Editor Bernard...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: Who, What, When, Where, How | 12/25/1939 | See Source »

New York City's Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia appointed Idol Gehrig to a ten-year term on the Municipal Parole Commission, to serve as an inspiration to delinquent boys. Rich George Ruppert, brother of the late owner of the Yankees, offered to sponsor the baseball career of a "second Lou...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Immortal Gehrig | 12/25/1939 | See Source »

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