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Word: shrews (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...secretion from a small sac found in the male causes the pungent odor, is used in many perfumes. "Musk" was originally the name of musk deer perfume, later was transferred to all animals and plants which had a similar odor. Some musk animals: muskrat, musk duck, musk beetle, musk shrew, musk turtle, musk kangaroo. Plants: musk mallow, musk root, musk clover, musk orchis, musk okra...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Animals: Musky Immigrants | 9/29/1930 | See Source »

Wilbur -- "Broken Dishes". Meekness and domesticity. The clever taming of a clever shrew...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Boards and Billboards | 6/2/1930 | See Source »

...presents Shakespeare that lacks glamour but makes sense. His Hamlet and Shylock are thoroughly understandable men beset by "equally perceivable woes. His Petruchio is an excruciating shrew-tamer. During his first Manhattan week he also played Macbeth, Malvolio (Twelfth Night), Richard...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: Revivals | 4/7/1930 | See Source »

...Stratford-on-Avon, Miss A. Justins received from a producer of plays in Toronto, Canada, a cable addressed to "William Shakespeare, care Mayor." The producer, pleased by The Taming of the Shrew, offered to buy the rights to William Shakespeare's previous plays, to read what- ever he might write in the future...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Mar. 17, 1930 | 3/17/1930 | See Source »

...TAMING OF THE SHREW-Shakespeare with sound, Pickford and Fairbanks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Table: Jan. 27, 1930 | 1/27/1930 | See Source »

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