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Word: playing (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...week before, "Sam" White had recovered a blocked kick (a play still legal under the new rule) and raced 95 yards to beat Harvard for the first time since...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Fumble | 3/4/1929 | See Source »

...Ducky") Yates, a gigantic resident of Rochester, N. Y., used to heave weights at the Hill School and at Yale. Two years ago he won the amateur golf championship of New York. He has been looking for another title ever since. Last week in Havana, taking care not to play the nineteenth hole at the wrong time, he slashed, bashed and putted well; became amateur golf champion of Cuba...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Yates in Cuba | 3/4/1929 | See Source »

...board is 20 ft. long, 4 ft. wide, a topographical relief map of an imaginary coast line. There are 20,000 square kilometers and over 4,000 pieces, representing every arm of war. Sixteen levels are used, affecting the "travel" and "range" of the miniature units. The game is played in weekly sessions over a period of months. Five Generals and a Commander-in-Chief play simultaneously on each side. The Commander-in-Chief walks back and forth behind his subordinates, surveying the entire field of action, and issues sealed orders on printed forms at half-day intervals. An electric...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Geddes at the Fair | 3/4/1929 | See Source »

Dean Hampden is the only actor-manager, in the sense of the term as it was applied to such as Edwin Booth and Richard Mansfield, in the U. S. today. He is the financial and artistic force "behind every play shown in the Walter Hampden Theatre on upper Broadway. A beardless patriarch, aged only 48, he follows his profession with perhaps sterner self-discipline but with more self-consciousness than his brothers, Paul, John, and Malcolm, have developed in following their respective professions of painting, law and literature...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: Dean Hampden | 3/4/1929 | See Source »

Kibitzer. Fannie Brice, playing Cleopatra, once described herself as "a bad woman but good company." Kibitzer is that sort of play. Structurally it has its weaknesses, but as an evening's entertainment there is no better bargain of its kind on Broadway at the moment. It is a Jewish Lightnin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Mar. 4, 1929 | 3/4/1929 | See Source »

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