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Word: swans (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...spent half her time riding over the countryside looking for antiques. Lady Scott wrote the music for "Annie Laurie," first popularized by the British soldiers at Sebastopol. She edited the poem thoroughly, made the second stanza read: Her brow is like the snowdrift, Her neck is like the swan, Her face it is the fairest That e'er the sun shone on. . . . Willie Douglas' version: She's backit like the peacock, She's briestit like the swan; She's jimp about the middle, Her waist ye weel micht span. . . . Last week in Dumfriesshire, Scotland, Captain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Scotch Romance | 5/14/1934 | See Source »

...design for a new Rockefeller dime bore the motto "Oily to bed and oily to rise. . . ." The Salons of America's Poet's Dream by Columba Krebs was a woman with a raven for hair, cherries for lips, shells for ears, a lily for a hand, a swan's neck. A crucifixion scene by one Samuel Hershey included newshawks, a microphone, a vendor of hot dogs and miniature crucifixes, a few indolent policemen. Independent José de Creeft showed a picador made of stove pipes and scrap iron. Independent Lucienne Bloch, daughter of Composer Ernest Bloch...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Salons v. Independents | 4/23/1934 | See Source »

...firmament of the Son of Heaven a brilliant new star has risen! Supple as the neck of the swan is the charm of her graceful form. Her black and sparkling eyes, in hours of ease, envelop and thrill that happy mortal allowed to see. O, Nguyen Huu Hao! Beautiful are all thy ways...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ANNAM: Wedding & Thanks | 4/2/1934 | See Source »

Relay--Won by Harvard (Kellogg, Sloane, O'Connor, Miller); second, Exeter (Swan, Coffin, Faweett, Parker). Time...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 1937 TRACKMEN WIN | 3/5/1934 | See Source »

Epee: Webster F. Williams '35 defeated May (P), 2-1, and Kelley (P), 2-1; Edward E. Langenau '35 defeated Swan (P), 2-1; May (P) defeated Langenau...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Varsity Fencing Team Wins Over Princeton by 10-7 Score | 3/5/1934 | See Source »

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