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Word: playe (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...meets are pointing towards the role we will play in the Dartmouth Winter Carnival," said Manager Bob Barrel," and they will also provide the basis on which Coach Halsey picks the eight-man team which will participate in the Carnival...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Ski Team Retires to Pinkham Notch To Tune Up for Dartmouth Carnival | 1/22/1948 | See Source »

Hanover, New Hampshire, will play host to the jumpers on January 29 when they work out on the Dartmouth Jump with, again, an eye towards the Winter Carnival...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Ski Team Retires to Pinkham Notch To Tune Up for Dartmouth Carnival | 1/22/1948 | See Source »

...music and of the performer. Sunday it was a Haydn Sonath and a Schubert Impromptu, both of which suffered from the prevailing atmosphere of a Prometheus bound within too-narrow emotional limits. The pieces were both miscast as an overture, but that was the role they were forced to play...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Music Box | 1/20/1948 | See Source »

Last week Muggsy closed his baggy eyes and rolled around low in Royal Garden Blues, with the sharp, brittle staccato that identifies all "Chicago brass." (Once when a name bandleader asked him to play high, Muggsy growled: "Aw, go get a piccolo player.") Explained one jazz fan: "Muggsy's from the South Side. He plays best at home...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Those Old Faces | 1/19/1948 | See Source »

There is no real lead in the play. Top roles are shared by nine men, all of whom happen to be members of the Cambridge City Council. Their acting is well nigh flawless. The plot is centered around the futile and ludicrous efforts of a City Council to elect a mayor from among the members of the Council. To date they have held 319 ballots, and no one has been chosen, though at a point early in the balloting one of the actors had four votes and needed only his own to make him mayor of the city. Fortunately...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Smash Hit | 1/16/1948 | See Source »

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