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Word: snubs (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Washington for the 26th annual convention of the U. S. Chamber of Commerce settled down for their first assembly in the slick, neoclassic C. of C. building across Lafayette Square from the White House, Franklin Roosevelt went fishing (see p. 13). Obvious reason for the President's snub is that ever since 1933 C. of C. meetings have been hymns of hate against the New Deal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Hymns in Washington | 5/16/1938 | See Source »

...revealed that their pilot. Colonel Davenport Johnson, had been transferred from Hamilton Field to second in command at the Air Corps Technical School at Chanute Field, 111., the War Department maintained it was a "routine" change but reporters jumped to the fairly natural conclusion: that the Administration intended to snub Mr. McNutt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICAL NOTES: First Robin | 3/7/1938 | See Source »

After his snub by British Broadcasting Corp. last week Grey Owl announced that he was sailing immediately for the U. S. where 28 lectures await...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Grey Owl Hushed | 1/3/1938 | See Source »

Last week's blackface Otello, veteran Giovanni Martinelli, could have won his audience without the smash-clapping and howling of the inevitable claque. Elisabeth Rethberg (Desdemona) substituted massively for Eide Norena, who was ill. Long-legged, snub-nosed Lawrence Tibbett (lago) acted so enthusiastically he almost made a home-plate slide in the second...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Met | 1/3/1938 | See Source »

...youngest dancers (17), is by far its most exotic looking. As a dancer, she has not yet advanced beyond petit sujet (ranking in ballet hierarchy above a corypheé, below a grand sujet). Irina Baronova, now 18, is a brilliant and imaginative artist, still addicted to lengthening her snub nose with putty, Tatiana Riabouchinska, usually superb in pale, willowy roles, last week turned flamboyant in a ballet the troupe is doing for the first time in the U. S.-Rimsky-Korsakov's Le Coq d'Or. As the golden cock which warned silly King Dodon whenever disaster impended...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Sur les Pointes | 11/1/1937 | See Source »

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