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Word: performances (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...play, more or less informally, if suitable opportunity were offered. Many men bring their saxophones and banjos to college in the hope that they may find a chance to get together with others for some enjoyable evenings. Perhaps others used to be able to do feats of magic or perform stunts, but find that these talents are now unused in college...

Author: By John S. Howe, | Title: Instrumental Clubs' Manager Presents Activities and Organization Features | 10/1/1934 | See Source »

...Race. The course was 30 miles, 15 with the wind and 15 against it. Endeavour rounded the halfway mark with a 6½-min. lead. An unfortunate tack by Endeavour, a lucky puff of wind for Rainbow, enabled the Vanderbilt boat first to catch up with Endeavour then to perform the maneuver which yachtsmen call "back-winding." Air currents, forced backwards by Rainbow's sails, destroyed the vacuum on the front side of Endeavour's. Endeavour lost more ground by tacking again, trailed Rainbow across the line...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Off Newport (Cont'd) | 10/1/1934 | See Source »

...parents of her fiance, shocks them by saying "My father was a florist." Desirable combines these two stories in a program picture which contains a few well-written sequences but not enough to make it valid either as comedy or problem play. Verree Teasdale, George Brent and Jean Muir perform competently...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Sep. 24, 1934 | 9/24/1934 | See Source »

...stage of the theatre; how members of the cast had dashed about buying presents and flowers for the improvised altar, and certain girls had donned their best summer frocks to be bridesmaids; how the bridal couple hastily enlisted a Rev. Frank H. Wells of Mount Vernon, N. Y. to perform the service while someone played the wedding march on a portable organ and someone else loaned Mr. Marshall a ring and someone else again gave Miss Fortescue away. Amid squeals, hugs, kisses, handshakes, the couple made their way to an automobile. At 11 p. m. Bride Fortescue was back...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Fortescue Fun | 9/10/1934 | See Source »

...made a brigadier-general. Morgan's first wife, an invalid, died in the third month of the war. His second marriage, in 1863, was the social event of the year; Confederate President Jefferson Davis attended, and General Leonidas Polk donned his cast-off bishop's robes to perform the ceremony. That summer Morgan made his most famed raid, a dash into Indiana and Ohio that frightened the inhabitants but ended in defeat and capture for Morgan and most of his men. Imprisoned in the Columbus Penitentiary, Morgan and six of his officers tunneled their way out, got safely back through...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Raider & Terrible Men | 8/20/1934 | See Source »

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