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Word: stagers (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Winthrop Ames picked Frieda Inescort. a young lady who, though she began her career in The Truth About Blayds (1922), is still well and honestly within her 20's. Discerning spectators along the "road" soon realized how lucky they were to see a Portia who was neither an old stager nor an eager young thing with stiff knees and an Eve's apple. Thoroughly feminine in the love scenes, persuasively austere in the court room, highly decorative at all times, the Inescort Portia was a characterization high of spirit, finely and clearly enunciated. After seeing her in Chicago, an astute...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: Youngest Portia | 3/18/1929 | See Source »

...Hours later Margaret Hauser of Long Beach, Calif., and Martha Stager of Portland, Ore., were discovered plodding along. Weakened they had to give up. Said Mr. Wrigley stepping from his steamer on which he had watched the contestants: "I'll give each of these girls...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Swim | 1/24/1927 | See Source »

...sourdough" is an old-stager who knows enough to use yeast in making his bread and not to live on bread stirred up impromptu...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AERONAUTICS: In Alaska | 3/29/1926 | See Source »

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