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Word: partings (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...ever. Between them they claim 8,000,000 members, or about one in five U. S. workers. As the largest organized economic minorities in the U. S., they have an enormous stake in the democracy in which they live, a corresponding duty to the People of whom they are part. This week, after their fashions, they report to the People...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Report to the People | 10/16/1939 | See Source »

...south and east" the Communazis intended to perform further cooperative works, including "reestablishment and reorganization of economic life," and, in an unspecified manner, shift some ethnographic groups-possibly German Jews to central Poland and "splinters" of "German nationality" back into the Reich. This "south and east" business was the part of the speech that caused apprehensive Italians to grumble: "Our Duce could have said it better...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: Last Statement | 10/16/1939 | See Source »

Drinking from one to ten cokes a day is as much a part of college life as saddle shoes and finals. The coke custom is the American collegiate substitute for afternoon tea, it is the excuse for relaxation and conversation. Everyone orders a coke, plain or flavored, usually from lack of originality, force of habit, or because it's his favorite drink...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PRESS | 10/14/1939 | See Source »

...Fall" since its premiere three years ago, has graduated from first-run originality into the revival class which must depend heavily on the originality of the production. Alan Gray Holmes's stock company has made an attempt to give the play that added novelty of interpretation, and has in part succeeded. What success the production has attained can be attributed almost solely to Erford Gage, director-actor, who gives every indication of crashing into the big leagues before long...

Author: By J. C. R., | Title: The Playgoer | 10/14/1939 | See Source »

...cast could have been smoothed over by the force of the play. But as it was, the pace which could have been tremendously effective only served to show up the cast. Erford Gage was, of course, the exception. Another exception might be made of Alice Wiley who, taking the part of Mrs. Terrence, the housekeeper, livens up her scenes with a humor adding much to the lines...

Author: By J. C. R., | Title: The Playgoer | 10/14/1939 | See Source »

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