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Word: tramped (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...unbecoming Italian accent, the Group Theatre's veteran Morris Carnovsky is the convincingly pathetic Old World parent, bewildered by a reckless new generation. Hollywood's Frances Farmer, who spent the summer in barn repertory preparing for her Broadway stage debut, was inappropriately cast as "a tramp from Newark," her fresh-faced prettiness belying every tough trait she tried to show...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Nov. 15, 1937 | 11/15/1937 | See Source »

...world's most potent warship, Britain's famed Hood, was ordered to Balearic waters last week, ordered this week to Barcelona to investigate the sinking of a British tramp steamer by an airplane which the London Daily Herald insisted bore marks showing that its bomber pilot was Bruno Mussolini...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Progress | 11/8/1937 | See Source »

William J. Bingham '16, Director of Athletics, also spoke, and said that he expected the present "three-presidents agreement" will go down as a contribution to intercollegiate athletics. "The tramp athlete has gone," he said. "He doesn't exist in these three institutions. I am sure that the three colleges are playing the game according to the rules. But the starting date for practice should be changed. It should vary with the date the season ends." He expressed the belief that some adjustment would be made shortly...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ENDOWMENT GIFTS FOR SPORTS GROW, CONANT DECLARES | 10/23/1937 | See Source »

...somewhat scrambled A Cargo of Parrots, by a pseudonymous English writer 25 years resident in Africa. Central character of the book is a remarkable native servant named Ramazini, whose dying German bwana (master) instructs him to deliver a collection of parrots to London. Against the sadistic treatment of a tramp steamer's first officer, Ramazini opposes first his extraordinary dignity, finally a lethal iron bar. Loving Memory, most ambitious, least successful of the five, is the story of a London newspaperman who discovers in his dead wife's diary after ten years of ostensibly happy marriage, a clashing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Novelette Finalists | 10/11/1937 | See Source »

Harry March once liked football go much that he sample under assumed names at four schools, Ohio State, Oberlin, Kenyen College, and Mount Union College. He gave his first name at Columbian (now George Washington University) and took and M.D. in 1901. Unlike many tramp football stars, Dr. March had a sharp and restless mind. He established a good medical practice, but kept his thoughts in the pigskin world by writing sport stories. The idea of writing he received for Authors Channing Pollack and Don Marquis, his Columbia roommates...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Four Schools Played Him | 10/8/1937 | See Source »

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