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Word: pauls (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...football field "Passin' Paul" is as nonchalant as a co-ed over a cocktail. When he darts to the right, then spins around and throws a touchdown pass to the left, one of his favorite plays, he usually explains to his opponent: "Just a little thing we thought up . . . no deception intended." Once when an opposing tackier bounced him for the 19th time, Christman gazed up at him from the ground, said: "My boy, why don't you rest on your laurels...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SPORT: Merry Christman | 11/20/1939 | See Source »

Collier's last week featured Paul Christman as the Dizzy Dean of football. His Missouri college mates strongly disapprove of the comparison. To point out that he is just a merry, modest young fellow, they tell how, after a Missouri defeat, Big Paul ambled off the field, wagging his head: "Me a football player? I should know better...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SPORT: Merry Christman | 11/20/1939 | See Source »

...first Pursuit of Happiness show this month, lusty Negro Baritone Paul Robeson volunteered. For his song, Director Norman Corwin dug up something called Ballad for Americans. Earl Robinson, its creator, is a two-fisted, not-too-widely recognized minstrel from the State of Washington...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RADIO: Bravos | 11/20/1939 | See Source »

...eleven minutes Paul Robeson and a chorus chanted how in 1776 Ol' Sam put on his three-cornered hat, what Patrick Henry told him about liberty or death, about George Washington and Tom Jefferson and what they did, how Betsy Ross organized a sewing circle and Paul Revere a horse race; about Old Abe Lincoln...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RADIO: Bravos | 11/20/1939 | See Source »

Reconstruction, men and machines, then, at the end, mighty Paul Robeson and the chorus double-forted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RADIO: Bravos | 11/20/1939 | See Source »

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