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Word: sylvia (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...upon the printed page. But a fair number of recognizable bon mots still remain, together with sketchy outlines of the plot, such as it is. And with some very pleasant music and some clever lyrics by a couple of freshmen in the musical comedy business, named Sidney Lippman and Sylvia Dee, and most especially with Nancy Walker in the cast, the book becomes a secondary matter. It's built around a sharply-pointed parody of Joe College on his home grounds tossing out below-the-belt punches at the fraternity system, big dumb football heroes, Big Men On the Campus...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Playgoer | 3/12/1947 | See Source »

Most of the topflight harpsich rdists are Landowska-trained: Switzerland's Isabel Nef, Italy's Ruggero Gerlin, London's Lucille Wallace, Los Angeles' Alice Ehlers, Manhattan's Sylvia Marlowe (who sometimes swings it) and Ralph Kirkpatrick...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Harpsichordists out of Tune | 2/3/1947 | See Source »

...first: Musicomedienne Sylvia Hawkes, a pub keeper's daughter, whom he divorced in 1935, naming her future second husband, the late film actor, Douglas Fairbanks, as corespondent. In 1944 she married Baron Stanley of Alderley...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Jan. 27, 1947 | 1/27/1947 | See Source »

Born. To Danny Kaye (real name: David Daniel Kaminski), 33, puckish, nimble-tongued comedian, and Sylvia Fine Kaye, 33, who wrote the tongue-twisting patter songs that first made her husband famous: their first child, a daughter; in Manhattan. Name: Dena. Weight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Dec. 30, 1946 | 12/30/1946 | See Source »

Students must aid in the fight to abolish the House Committee on Un-American Affairs, according to Miss Sylvia Slade, representative of the Massachusetts Civil Liberties Union, who addressed the members of the Liberal Union last night in Phillips Brooks House...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Slade Urges HLU To Aid Abolition Of Rankin Group | 12/13/1946 | See Source »

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