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Word: shard (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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Elliot Cabot and Miriam Hopkins play the lovers. But their ardors are scarcely as exciting as the tart philosophizing of old Mrs. Pesta, a female shard, played by Helen Westley of the Guild Board of Directors. Director Westley has acted in 37 of the Guild's 70 productions. As the mother of Susi she makes the first act so brilliant that the last two are inevitably the worse for her longer absence from the stage...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Apr. 29, 1929 | 4/29/1929 | See Source »

...service from him to that nonsense about the League of Nations. . . . What do we want with Leagues? Is not the British Empire League enough?'no artificial' League, but the real thing, founded on reeking tube and iron shard...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Great Men | 1/3/1927 | See Source »

...communication of March 10 there occurred a "glaring, if not deliberate" ambiguity, regarding the compensation received by members of the Boston Symphony Orchestra who participate in the Sunday evening musical services at the Epworth Methodist Church. The total sum of sixty dollars which they receive has to be shard by sometimes as many as five and never less than two musicians, besides the musical director...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A Reply to Mr. Gleason. | 3/11/1920 | See Source »

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