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Word: room (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Room permission has been granted until 10 o'clock, according to Robert J. Glaser '40, chairman of the committee. Decorations will consist of illuminated cutouts and special lighting effects...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CLAUDE HOPKINS' BAND TO PLAY FOR PURITANS | 2/9/1939 | See Source »

...turned out genuinely original products like Le Roman d'un Tricheur and Grand Illusion. Hollywood, however, even when it was not deliberately repeating itself, repeated itself unconsciously. Gunga Din is an example of this unconscious repetition. Whatever there is to be said about the minor matter of barrack-room life in India has been more than sufficiently said by the cinema many times, most recently in Lives of a Bengal Lancer, Charge of the Light Brigade and Drums...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Feb. 6, 1939 | 2/6/1939 | See Source »

Haydn: Concerto in D Major, Op. 21, for Piano and Orchestra (Orchestre Symphonique of Paris, M. F. Gaillard conducting, with Marguerite Roesgen-Champion; Columbia: 4 sides). Earlier vintage Haydn, with less body but plenty of sparkle. Pianist Roesgen-Champion serves it properly: at room temperature...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: February Records | 2/6/1939 | See Source »

...artist. He has evolved his own color chart, with 24 hues based not on the spectrum, obtained by the mechanical refraction of white light, but on pigments found in nature and the observed human reactions to them. He is far prouder of the Aquatic Park's "color chart room"-in which these hues and their tints, shades and tones are painted on a 60-foot ceiling -than of the undersea murals...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Sea Murals | 2/6/1939 | See Source »

...shows, which drag along "until exhausted," feature 16 girls, some of them "too late for Social Security," others introduced as "from the House of the Good Shepherd," Baltimore's home for delinquent females. For ensemble acts, the chorines, seated around the room, suddenly pull off their evening gowns and, with very little on, flounce into their routines. After each specialty act, the audience is warned that the next one will be worse. Two husky bruisers, "Machine Gun Butch" Gardina and "Little" Jack Horner, 6 ft. 6, preserve order...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: World's Worst | 2/6/1939 | See Source »

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