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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...stones have stood for a thousand years, and pained thoughts found...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Nine and Two | 12/26/1938 | See Source »

...Moore has written so many sonnets (50,000) that he habitually thinks in blocks of 14 lines. Since his 18th year he has written an average of five sonnets a day, and as many as 100 in four hours. This month he published a few of them: M: One Thousand Autobiographical Sonnets (Harcourt, Brace...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Nine and Two | 12/26/1938 | See Source »

...Theatre Guild and Alfred Lunt, chucked his lucrative radio work, took Idiot's Delight on tour. Hailed as a natural for the hoofer role, he got rave notices. But the show did poor business, wound up its brief tour last week $10,000 in the red.* "Ten thousand dollars." said Baker, who is returning to radio to recoup before taking another crack at the stage, "is more than it was worth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: Idealist | 12/19/1938 | See Source »

...Forum" goes on to report that Cambridge sent a wire to Harvard reading: "Heading for thousand pounds. How about you Yanks...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HARVARD NAMED CHAMPION OF FUND FOR SPANISH BABIES | 12/17/1938 | See Source »

...contest for the title of "proudest small town in America," judges awarded the prize to Cadiz, Ohio (pop., 2,597). Reason: it "has had more citizens of wide renown than any other community under ten thousand population." Some famed Cadizians: Critic Percy Hammond, Cinemactor Clark Gable, Robert P., Charles S. and Thomas A. Scott, inventors of ''the peach parer, the pea viner and the pea podder...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Dec. 12, 1938 | 12/12/1938 | See Source »

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