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Word: redeeming (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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Thou wert fair in the fearless old fashion, And thy limbs are as melodies yet, And move to the music of passion With lithe and lascivious regret. What ailed us, O gods, to desert you For creeds that refuse and restrain? Come down and redeem us from virtue, Our Lady of Pain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Dolorous Dolores | 8/19/1929 | See Source »

Last chance for Seniors to redeem surplus tickets this morning at Straus 23 between 10 and 1 o'clock...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SENIOR SPREAD | 6/11/1929 | See Source »

...been his appeal over the footlights that he gets all the women's vote, is elected. Backstage scenes of the type resorted to here are no longer convulsive for their own sake. Nor does pleasant hokum like the sale of candy with a souvenir in each & every box, redeem the longer intervals of sluggish comedy. Henry Hull makes the actor-mayor only a conventional juvenile. The Passion Play, traditional drama of Christ's last days, has been given for more than six centuries on the hills of Freiburg, Germany.* Last week the Freiburg players appeared in Manhattan, presented...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: May 13, 1929 | 5/13/1929 | See Source »

...goldilock delicacy of Vivian Martin, oldtime cinema ingenue, fails to redeem the bromides which she has to deliver in her cracked little voice. All three acts are set in a modernistic cottage, so turbulently red and orange that it resembles the façade of a Coney Island rollercoaster. This play had a run of 18 weeks in Chicago as Companionate Marriage...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: May 6, 1929 | 5/6/1929 | See Source »

...have called this special session of Congress to redeem two pledges given in the last election-farm relief and limited tariff revision...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Message No. i | 4/22/1929 | See Source »

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