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Word: steeds (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sense of what a "cavalryman"' mounted on his mechanical steed experiences during a charge, Correspondents Webb Miller (U. P.) and Harold Denny (New York Times) rode together in one of the B. E. F.'s fast, small tanks. Mr. Miller got a banged leg, Mr. Denny a sense of awe and seaksickness as they joggled cross-country on rubber-padded perches within their little juggernaut...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World War: Bearskins at Home | 10/30/1939 | See Source »

...White Steed. The author of Shadow and Substance repeats his theme but enriches his story (TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: Broadway's Best | 2/6/1939 | See Source »

...White Steed (by Paul Vincent Carroll; produced by Eddie Dowling) is, thematically, much the same play as Carroll's Shadow and Substance. But it is a better play. Shadow and Substance leaned too heavily on portraiture; The White Steed also has plot. Shadow and Substance was enveloped in a cloud of mysticism; The White Steed shows the warm flesh of humanity. Shadow and Substance had too literary a finish; The White Steed is often combustibly dramatic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Jan. 23, 1939 | 1/23/1939 | See Source »

KOMAROM, Czech-Hungarian Frontier--Regent Nicholas de Horthy of Hungary, riding a prancing steed, today led a column of Hungarian cavalry across the Danube and into this medieval town where he formally claimed 4,787 square miles of territory surrendered by Czechoslovakia...

Author: By The ASSOCIATED Press, | Title: Over the Wire | 11/7/1938 | See Source »

...hour later two janitors steed guard at the main gate, barring reporters from the inner courtyard. Thus did the tall, bespectacled German signify his intention of avoiding what might prove embarrassing interviews...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Bruening Bars Reporters on Arrival; Admits "Great Pleasure" to Teach | 9/25/1937 | See Source »

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