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Word: proms (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Long heralded in verse and prose, the Prom finally is upon us. The weaker sex is arriving to get the thrill of her life. The dancing men are spending their first week-end in New Haven in many a moon...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE PRESS | 2/29/1932 | See Source »

...Haven, Conn., Dec. 16--The Yale junior prom, the outstanding social event of the year in undergraduate life, will be held on February 26, and the profits, if any, will be contributed for relief of the unemployed. The event will be held in Woolsey Hall, and this year for the first time expenses will be reduced to a minimum. In the past undergraduates have had to pay $15 a couple, but this year the price is to be only...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PROM PROFITS GO TO CHARITY | 12/18/1931 | See Source »

...student body is now attempting to have the time of the annual hockey game with Harvard, which is scheduled to be played on the evening before the prom, changed to the afternoon, to allow the Sheffield clubs to have their traditional house dances in the early part of the evening...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PROM PROFITS GO TO CHARITY | 12/18/1931 | See Source »

Investigation revealed what published accounts had not: that one lady had asked the Employment Office for the names of six lonely men who might like to attend the annual Prom at a small suburban school. There were no conditions attached to the invitation. No pay was offered. Harvard evinced no great enthusiasm...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: No Harvard Gigolos | 12/14/1931 | See Source »

...plot is in the same pattern as Madame X and Madelon Claudet. Prom- ising an estranged husband (Geoffrey Kerr) to support a fortuitous rumor that she is dead. Miss Chatterton disappears into the Parisian demimonde. Years later she threatens to reveal that she is still alive and resentful when he refuses to let their grown-up daughter marry. Cinemas in which the climax arrives only with the maturity of the heroine's offspring are likely to be long drawn out. This one, though Ruth Chatterton acts well and ably affects a Russian accent, seems as long as two ordinary cinemas...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Nov. 16, 1931 | 11/16/1931 | See Source »

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