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Word: smashes (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...staff of the late New York World. Anderson hadn't gone to war, but he collaborated with the World's book critic, Laurence Stallings, who had, in writing What Prince Glory, a play meant to prove that glory is gained by a bloody price in War. It was a smash hit, but not for its profanity alone...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Honored by Critics | 5/15/1936 | See Source »

Behind Ed Ingalls the Crimson will be seeking to smash the Holy Cross undefeated record in nine games and to stretch its own winning streak...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: INGALLS, BRUNINGHAUS PITCH AT HOLY CROSS | 5/15/1936 | See Source »

...team was never headed and even allowed itself to make seven errors. In the fourth Princeton picked up two runs on Johnston's homer after a base on balls, and in the ninth put on a four run splurge culminated by pinch hitter Masset's drive. Like Johnston's smash, it went for a round trip by bouncing erratically past Gibbs' head...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: VARSITY NINE PASTES 13-8 LOSS ON TIGERS | 5/4/1936 | See Source »

Written and staged by men accustomed to smash hits, discerning Producer Wiman's show lifts some old stars to new heights. Disillusioned Luella Gear (Gay Divorce), the only hard-boiled stage lady who seems to know where comedy ceases and churlishness begins, has never been more amusing than when she sings...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: New Play in Manhattan: On Your Toes | 4/20/1936 | See Source »

...Harry McGuire went to Europe, soon returned to edit Outdoor Life for its new owners at tiny Mt. Morris, Ill., 100 mi. west of Chicago. There he found time to contract and recover from a nervous breakdown, lay out a private polo field, break his nose in an automobile smash-up and become familiar with many of the nation's literary and social lights, who in turn came to regard kinetic, fun-loving Harry McGuire as something of a character himself...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Ringmaster | 4/13/1936 | See Source »

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