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Word: seene (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...value of all Boston plays. Representative Christian A. Herter protested that their prerogative was "unfair". "They can ban a play and no reason need be given," he argued. Certainly Mayor Mansfield could have given no reasons for his disapproval of "The Children's Hour", because he had neither seen nor read the play. If "Within the Gates" is morally degrading, what virtues suffice to justify the sort of entertainment carried on by The Old Howard or Park Burlesque? This is but one evidence of the irony of entrusting things intellectual to men whose only experience is in things political. David...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CONDEMNATION WITHOUT REPRESENTATION | 2/19/1936 | See Source »

...jail, the Gamin is dancing in a cabaret whose proprietor agrees to employ Chaplin as a singing waiter. There occurs a scene of tray juggling, followed by the Chaplin song, in gibberish. Juvenile court officials descend on the cabaret to arrest the Gamin. Escaping, she and Chaplin are last seen walking together up that desolate and endless road upon which so many of his films have sadly ended...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Feb. 17, 1936 | 2/17/1936 | See Source »

Cayenne. But Terangi did not intend to be caught until he had seen his wife and mother once again...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Big Wind | 2/17/1936 | See Source »

Josef Albers, formerly of the Bauhaus in Vienna, has been experimenting with the theory that a scale of design, similar in many ways to the musical scale, can be developed. A collection of his experimental drawings may be seen at the Fine Arts Guild in an exhibition entitled "Adventures in From Values...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FINE ARTS GUILD | 2/11/1936 | See Source »

...produce the volume of business necessary to make it a profitable enterprise. Thereupon the Department of Justice claimed that Columbia Gas & Electric, indirectly controlling the Parish line, was deliberately mismanaging it to keep Texas gas out of Columbia's home territory. It was charged that Columbia, having seen the invader approach its gates, promptly bought a half interest in him and proceeded to render him innocuous...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Triumph in Gas | 2/10/1936 | See Source »

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