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Word: sweete (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Four Virginia colleges will be host to the orchestra during the vacation. Mary Washington and Mary Baldwin Colleges, the State Teachers College at Farmville, and Sweet Briar...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Musicians Head For South on First Tour | 3/21/1941 | See Source »

...drinks are free at 5 a.m. and 5 p.m.). Jack Dempsey brooded in a corner of his dim and crowded saloon. Fat, male Mother Kelly dished up steaks, drinks and hermaphroditic comedy at Mother Kelly's. Across Biscayne Bay, on the Miami side, painted men danced and profaned sweet songs at the Club Ha-Ha. In the casinos at Ben Marden's Colonial Inn, the Sunny Isles Club, the Royal Palm, gamblers crowded the roulette and dice tables. On the ocean side, Glamor Row flung its facade of stucco and neon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FLORIDA: Good Season | 3/17/1941 | See Source »

...slow show saved by some top-rung acting. Oliva de Haviland proffers a pleasing new approach, abandoning Melanie's sweet-souled idealism for a rougher characterization. Alan Hale as a street-cleaner and wife-wolfer is huge and gives the customers a few hearty giggles. Cagney's successful plodding is beautifully contrasted against the strawberry blonde's hypocritical and disastrous social climbing...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE MOVIEGOER | 3/17/1941 | See Source »

...centuries have neither soured the emotion nor blighted the charm of one of the most delightful of English operas was proven last night in the Lowell House Musical Society's production of Venus and Adonis by Dr. John Blow. The old wine of Dr. Blow's music tasted as sweet in the new bottle as it ever could have at a court performance in Restoration England, and its freshness rang welcome on ears tired by the flourishes of grand opera. The story of the mythical lovers, somewhat perverted to Restoration conventions, is told with only three chief characters and only...

Author: By J. A. B., | Title: THE PLAYGOER | 3/12/1941 | See Source »

Snooks first came into being at a private party in Manhattan. In the course of singing a patter song, Poor Pauline, Miss Brice lapsed into baby talk. Years later Moss Hart wrote a Snooks skit for Sweet and Low, but Snooks was officially recognized when she was included in the Brice routine for the 1934 Follies. The late Dave Freedman and Phil Rapp, who still writes the Maxwell House script, collaborated on material for Snooks. A couple of years later Fanny ran through the Snooks skit as a guest of Maxwell House. Signed up as a permanent attraction...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Brat's Birthday | 3/10/1941 | See Source »

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