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Word: prom (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Reynold's an Artic Shaw imitator. . . Sonny Burke, a Duke University product who does just as well as his predecessor, Les Brown, is playing at the Atlantic Ballroom in Revere. Good dance music and quite acceptable swing. . . And don't forget that Jimmy Dorsey is playing the MIT Sophomore Prom tonight at the Copley Plaza. If you are a fast talker, you might be able to wangle your way into this...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Swing | 11/24/1939 | See Source »

...three topnotch bands pull into town today. Jimmy Dorsey, Les Brown, and Sonny Burke attract in the order named, the last two being here for several weeks, Jimmy doing a series of one-nighters starting tonight at Roseland State and ending up next Friday at the MIT Sophomore Prom...

Author: By Michael Levin, | Title: Swing | 11/17/1939 | See Source »

...again last year Harvard wired Caniff for a picture, got it, won. By this time Yale was beginning to feel that it was being jinxed, and so last fall Yale's junior prom committee wrote to Cartoonist Caniff and demanded a picture for Eli. Caniff knocked off a quick sketch of The Dragon Lady, which the committee blew up to enormous proportions and used as a wall decoration at the prom...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Harvard and the Pirates | 6/19/1939 | See Source »

...Class, nearly to a man, imported "the-girl-from-back-home." Of these a vast majority were brunettes with only a few blondes and a lonely red-haired girl. For 50 per cent of the class it was their first college prom...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ST. BONAVENTURE PROM NON-JITTERBUG AFFAIR | 5/26/1939 | See Source »

With the announcement that the Jubilee has been shifted to Memorial Hall and that the afternoon tea dance will definitely be held on Friday, May 26 before the annual Freshman affair, the plans were completed last night for the "first Freshman Prom weekend in the history of the University...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SEVERAL CHANGES MADE IN PLANS FOR JUBILEE WEEKEND | 5/17/1939 | See Source »

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