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Word: pasts (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...homely Methodist Church on Manhattan's upper west side, audiences of homely Christians listened quietly last week to the warm words of an oldtimer evangelist. "Gypsy" Rodney Smith had visited the U. S. 35 times in the past half-century, but this visit was different. He had been hired this time by the Greater New York Federation of Churches to do something about New York City's 4,000,000 pagans...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RELIGION: For Pagans | 11/20/1939 | See Source »

Such a career argues more than a brilliant writer of comedy. It proclaims a past master of show business, who has learned every trick of the trade and invented many a new one. It proclaims an amazing foresight in always taking the pulse of Broadway as the clue to its heart, a habit of always writing fashionable plays and never revolutionary ones. It proclaims a playwright who has made sport of everything while never giving offense to anybody. It proclaims a really great practical theatre mind, with no philosophy except that the theatre is entertainment, and that good entertainment pays...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: Past Master | 11/20/1939 | See Source »

...most successful comedy writer of his generation, Kaufman talks, half-vaguely, half-excitedly, of writing a really serious play-a play about Jews which he and Edna Ferber have been turning over in their minds for the past five years. Then, distinctly as an afterthought, he maintains that he has written two serious plays already-Merrily We Roll Along, in 1934, and last season's The American...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: Past Master | 11/20/1939 | See Source »

Under 776, the company's Common stockholders had got over 67% of preferred holders to agree to a plan giving them a piece of the solvent, new company (to be known as Los Angeles Shipbuilding & Drydock Co.), had got their plan past the Federal courts as fair, feasible and equitable...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GOVERNMENT: Specialists | 11/20/1939 | See Source »

...hard to learn (though not much harder than German) and U. S. education has generally dispensed with it. Available translations are often out of date or poor and first-rate writers have had more pressing interests than to improve upon them. People who feel like studying mankind's past have been attracted to anthropology, not to Thucydides. In art the "primitive" has seemed more fruitful than the Classical...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BOOKS: New History | 11/20/1939 | See Source »

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