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Word: summered (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...about to begin and crowds are flocking to see Bette Davis in Dark Victory; in Rome, where they are laughing at a boy-meets-girl comedy called Two Dozen Red Roses and singing a tuneful song called It Was Folly; in Russia, where football squads are drilling for the summer season; in London, where the most popular song is Deep Purple. Over the crisis-worn continent last week the people were moving under cloudless skies; the wheat was up, the fishing was good, and a wave of celebrations, fairs, festivals, holidays, anniversaries, colored the old towns from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: Springtime in Europe | 6/5/1939 | See Source »

...casts petitioned Actors' Equity Association to be allowed to take cuts than at any other time in Equity's history; and most of the shows, even on reduced expenses, had to fold. Smart money predicted that only eight of Broadway's 16 shows can. survive the summer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: Revelry by Night | 6/5/1939 | See Source »

...spring, radio's small fry get their big chance to try out new program ideas. Reason: most of the big-name, expensive radio shows leave the air during the spring and summer, when listeners presumably spend less time at home. At summer's end, when the regulars return, small-fry survivors are few. Of last year's dozens of new shows, the standout success is Information Please...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Spring Tryouts | 6/5/1939 | See Source »

...District Attorney, which will substitute for Pepsodent's Bob Hope, program on NBC-Red this summer, is typical of the vulgate radio shows by Phillips H. Lord (Seth Parker, Gang Busters, We, the People). Racket situations are dramatized and a Dewey-style prosecuting attorney goes to work on the fictionized culprits...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Spring Tryouts | 6/5/1939 | See Source »

...Columbia University for opposing U. S. entry into the War. Other radicalizers in Glenn's young manhood were a good-humored rebel chum; a freshman roommate hipped on the Law of Moses and Henry George's single tax; a picturesque Wobbly pal in the Northwest wheatfields one summer; a sociology instructor who took him along when he moved to a professorship at Columbia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Heresy | 6/5/1939 | See Source »

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