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Word: overnights (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Commisary of Culture, and publicly reprimanded by Pravda for being a callous, shallow, "modern," who destroyed the old formal bases of art just for the fun of it. Soon afterwards, however, he had a startling change of heart, dropped his former pan-European artistic ideals, and became overnight the musical exponent of the new social gospel. The politicians were quick to see the propaganda value of a widely admired artist who was willing to cooperate, and he also probably saw certain material conveniences in the arrangement. His fifth symphony was performed in Moscow on the anniversary of the October Revolution...

Author: By Robert W. Flint, | Title: THE MUSIC BOX | 3/5/1942 | See Source »

...Gold Coasters have a standing rivalry with Saybrook College at Yale and compete with them in football, basketball and baseball whenever possible. The Adams team will play Saybrook tomorrow afternoon and will stay overnight, in Now Haven. Making the trip will be Dick Craig, Ray Holtao, Bill Jackson, Tim Jenkins, Pete Macgowan, Phil Neagie, Bob Sadove, and Bill Wilcox...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 3 Champ House Teams Face Yale | 2/26/1942 | See Source »

Until American Gothic made him an overnight sensation at the age of 38, Painter Wood's life was a constant fight against poverty. He was born in 1892 on a farm in Iowa's rolling Jones County. When his farmer father died, the Wood family moved to nearby Cedar Rapids, where ten-year-old Grant helped support his mother and three other children by doing chores for the neighbors. After working his way through high school, he drifted about the Middle West as a jewelry craftsman, a night watchman in a mortuary, a country schoolteacher...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Iowa's Painter | 2/23/1942 | See Source »

...five out of 50-odd plays this season have tried to cope with it. Farces and comedies have flopped as fast, and been as feeble, as dramas, for the good reason that playwrights have shamelessly aped other men's hits, exploited worn-out formulas, slapped their scripts together overnight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: Big Names Rubbed Out | 2/16/1942 | See Source »

...first sign that the Axis conquest would be different in Yugoslavia came when children locked themselves into their schoolrooms, scrawled anti-Nazi slogans on the blackboards. Then in a swift overnight coup d'état, General Simovich seized control of the Government, announced that Yugoslavia would defy the Axis...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE BALKANS: Delayed Dispatch | 2/2/1942 | See Source »

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