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Word: sarge (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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When Santa Claus arrives in Boston on Thanksgiving Day after a long hop from the frozen North, one hundred and fifty Harvard students, garbed in multicolored costumes and leading the weirdly shaped Tony Sarg balloons will be at hand to greet...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harvard Students To Welcome St. Nick As Animal Keepers | 11/13/1933 | See Source »

Unlike the Tony Sarg productions, no serious effort is made at realism. The puppets are a race apart, talented and entertaining, but with the temperament of a Pinocchio. It is scarcely possible to describe "The Piccoli" as a mere puppet show, it is rather a carnival, acted by an immense cast under the aegis of a group of maestros in the art of manipulating marionettes...

Author: By E. W. R., | Title: The Crimson Playgoer | 3/22/1933 | See Source »

...puzzles account for more than half the total sales today, with the fad being pushed by newspaper colyumists, cartoonists and editorial writers, by radio gag men and smart cocktail party devotees. Simon & Schuster, crossword pioneers, issued $1 puzzles designed by Peter Arno, William Steig, Otto Soglow, Tony Sarg...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Puzzle Profits | 2/20/1933 | See Source »

Every Thanksgiving Day in Manhattan, R. H. Macy & Co. stages a parade of huge comic balloons designed by Tony Sarg. When the procession ends the balloons are released. Cash prizes are paid for their return. But after famed Clarence Chamberlin snared a yellow-&-black dragon on the wingtip of his plane last year and collected $25, Macy's announced that aviators in flight were disqualified as balloon-hunters...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Aeronautics: Girl v. Tomcat | 12/5/1932 | See Source »

Tremont Temple--"Sinbad, the Sailor." Tony Sarg's Marionettes. A saga with some strings attached...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BILLS AND BILLBOARDS | 11/25/1932 | See Source »

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