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Word: scene (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Obscured by all the bong and glitter of pre-Coronation, a quiet little scene took place in Britain's High Court last week which may vitally affect the future of Anglo-Italian relations, possibly the peace of Europe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Sly Gambit | 5/24/1937 | See Source »

...tercentenary celebration last year, President Conant spoke eloquently for the promulgation of scholarship and the free and unbiased search for truth. In the old yard, under the rain-drenched elms, where the statue of John Harvard contemplates the Cambridge scene, thousands of alumni rose and cheered as the three-hundred-year-old banner of Harvard, bearing the motto, "Veritas", was raised...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE PRESS | 5/19/1937 | See Source »

Like Gone With The Wind and Boy in Blue, Bugles Blow No More strings its beads of action on the thin thread of a love story. The scene is Richmond, second capital of the Confederacy; from Secession Night to Appomattox. In 1861 Richmond was gay, prosperous, confident, the established capital of an established civilization. Between Mildred Wade, daughter of an aristocrat, and Brose Kirby, a clerk in her father's tobacco warehouse, was a social abyss nothing short of an earthquake could wipe out. But it was earthquake weather, and both of them felt it. Before Brose marched...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Rebel Richmond | 5/17/1937 | See Source »

...Fugato on a well-known theme McBride *Hungarian Dances (Nos. 5 and 6) Brahms Chorus with Orchestra: Harvard Glee Club--G. Wallace Woodworth, Conductor March of the Peers, from "Iolanthe" Sullivan Two Italian Folk Songs Tarantella (Prologue to the Harvard Classical Club play of 1936) Elliot Carter '30 *Coronation Scene from "Boris Godounow" Moussorgsky *Bolero Ravel Harvard Fantasy Leroy Anderson '30 *The Way You Look Tonight" Kern (Symphonic paraphrase by L. Cailliet) *"Up the Street," March Morse...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: AT THE POPS | 5/17/1937 | See Source »

...Star Is Born" is heartily recommended for your enjoyment. It is the first film in Technicolor where color does not have the leading role, (there is but one sunset scene, and that one is very effective); it is the first film in many years that Miss Gaynor has looked the age of the person she portrays; it should be the first film you see on your next visit...

Author: By V. F., | Title: The Moviegoer | 5/17/1937 | See Source »

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