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Word: playe (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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According to their schedule, the freshman hockey team is supposed to play Milton Academy at Milton at 4:30 p.m. tomorrow. But Milton has an outdoor rink and unless massive cold air waves move down from the north the game will be literally washed...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: '52 Sextet Scheduled To Meet Milton Today | 2/15/1949 | See Source »

...Freezer) is probably the masterwork of the unversatile author of Sex, Pleasure Man, The Constant Sinner and Catherine Was Great. As a vehicle, at any rate, Lil remains after 21 years a good sturdy Mae Western. Too dated in 1928 to date much since, and so bad a play that it has considerable merit as a parody, Diamond Lil gives Miss West every chance to shoot the works, to be as majestically unrefined and unreformed as she knows...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: Old Play in Manhattan, Feb. 14, 1949 | 2/14/1949 | See Source »

...Mikan plans to play pro basketball for another three years or so, then perhaps take up politics. Basketball, he says, is too tough a game to play forever: "I want to keep the rest of my teeth-I've lost four already...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: The Battle of Baskets | 2/14/1949 | See Source »

When buxom, 35-year-old Soprano Welitsch bounced into rehearsal, singers and musicians alike picked up more glow. Actress as well as singer, she seemed to know how Strauss's libidinous, necrophilic Salome (based on Oscar Wilde's play) should be portrayed. Says Welitsch with rapid gestures to head, heart and torso: "To sing Salome, you have to have something-here and here and here...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Great Performance | 2/14/1949 | See Source »

Remarried. Martin Flavin, 63, who won the New York Theater Club Medal for his play The Criminal Code (1929), later switched to novels and won the Pulitzer Prize for Journey in the Dark (1943); and third wife Cornelia Clampett Flavin, 51, who divorced him in 1944; in Carmel, Calif...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Feb. 14, 1949 | 2/14/1949 | See Source »

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