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Word: performer (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Tell the Wife (Irene Rich, Huntley Gordon). The idea of a wife giving her errant husband tit for tat by holding hands with an old friend of the family, is simply immortal. The "variation" here introduced is to have another old friend of the family perform two marriage ceremonies which only he and the audience know are faked. Then comes the excruciating suspense while pajamas are unpacked and coverlets turned down. Whoso remembers a strip called The Marriage Circle has known this picture in a previous and superior incarnation. When U. S. counter-jumpers try to be Europeans, not even...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: New Pictures: Mar. 7, 1927 | 3/7/1927 | See Source »

With Marcel Grandjany as soloist, the Boston Symphony Orchestra, led by Serge Koussevitsky, will perform in Sanders Theatre at 8 o'clock this evening...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SYMPHONY CONCERT WILL BE GIVEN AT SANDERS TONIGHT | 3/3/1927 | See Source »

...Having asked for $185,000 for ventilating and dehumidizing the Senate chamber (TIME, Feb 7), President Coolidge last week submitted to Congress an estimate of $245,000 to perform the same operation in the House...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: The White House Week: Feb. 28, 1927 | 2/28/1927 | See Source »

...That the Harvard and Yale chairmen shall perform jointly the general functions filled, under the Triple Agreement by the Committee of the three chairmen but after such consultation as may at any time be desired by either chairman, final responsibility for the eligibility, scholastic and otherwise, of individual members of athletic teams shall rest with the University concerned...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: NEW AGREEMENT CONCLUDED WITH YALE REVISES FORMER "BIG THREE" COVENANT | 2/24/1927 | See Source »

...pounds, mountains of fat and muscle who boast that they eat ten times the daily ration of the ordinary Japanese. Anciently sumo (literally "horn power") was a contest of strength between trained bulls. Today 1,200 professional wrestlers, divided into teams, "The East" and "The West," perform at two great championship bouts of ten days' length twice yearly. Each tries to force or throw his individual opponent out of a ring; each has practiced to perfection the "twelve throws, twelve lifts, twelve twists and twelve throws over the back." Occidentals present at these matches are typically...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JAPAN: Biggest Mayor | 1/31/1927 | See Source »

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