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Word: toed (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Both the white young boy who works to save an arrogant and stubborn Negro from a lynching, and the Negro himself, are obscure characters in the film, though they are most important ones. Many things in the movies compensate for the loss of Mr. Faulkner's method of storytelling, but...

Author: By George A. Leiper, | Title: THE MOVIEGOER | 12/20/1949 | See Source »

WHRB's LP recording of the Lowell House Musical Society's Acis and Galatea is certainly a bit of good luck. The blurb on the back of the envelope tells us that the broadcast of last spring's performance was recorded as an experiment. It goes on to say that...

Author: By Herbert P. Gleason, | Title: THE MUSIC BOX | 12/20/1949 | See Source »

Vag stood up, shoved into his coat. It would be a good idea to check on the books he'd have to take home--he might as well spend the vacation studying, for with all the obnoxious children underfoot at home he would need some excuse to get away.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE VAGABOND | 12/20/1949 | See Source »

He walked across the Square--colored lights, and old rummies with tin pails asking for dimes and quarters, and all the stores leering out in the darkness, bright windows like dragons' jaws to eat money; money, money and that's Xmas. There's no such thing as Christmas. Into the...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE VAGABOND | 12/20/1949 | See Source »

Vag was halfway up the Widner steps before he heard the singing from Appleton, faint through window and curtain, dropping back to him from the library's front. He stood a moment, hearing the whole church catch up a hymn and call back to the choir. There was no money...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE VAGABOND | 12/20/1949 | See Source »

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