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Word: trios (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Harvard allows its minor sports to suffer, while the hallowed trio of football, baseball and hockey continue to have full schedules, trips away and the best coaches obtainable, it then lays itself open to serious charges of "commercialism" and going "big time". Under the present set-up the boy who is a good wrestler or fencer, but didn't come to Harvard to play football, is being slighted...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A MINOR CRISIS II | 1/14/1937 | See Source »

...started when a trio of students worn out with the reading period and exhilarated by a bottle of 15-year-old Scotch, so our anonymous source reports, decided to phone in to the station. "This is Roger Merriman of Cambridge," said one of them, "and I'd like to hear "I Don't want to Make History...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Professor Merriman Becomes Irate As Name Appears On WAAB Program | 1/14/1937 | See Source »

Gordon and Revel songs, amiable dialog by a trio of ace screen writers, adroit direction by William Seiter and effortless acting by a sophisticated cast give Stowaway a quality recent Temple pictures have lacked, of simple, unself-conscious charm. Good shot: Randall and valet, having failed to sing Shirley Temple to sleep, nodding when she croons Good Night, My Love...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Christmas Waifs | 12/28/1936 | See Source »

Last week, the State had Queen Helen on trial for grand theft, soliciting a bribe and conspiracy. Her co-defendants were Convict Weinblatt and easy-going Pete Werner. Most damaging testimony was offered by the trio's accuser, Gertrude Davey, proprietor of Hollywood's Lon Chancy Jr. Cafe. Red-haired Mrs. Davey told of going to Pete Werner's law office and paying Queen Helen a $250 installment of the $500 she was told it would cost to recover her revoked liquor license from the State Board of Equalization. Queen Helen, she said, boasted that she controlled...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CALIFORNIA: Queen Helen | 12/21/1936 | See Source »

...Sing? are some of the unbelievably corn-fed wisecracks which Librettists Sid Kuller and Ray Golden expect Comedian Whitehead to put across. Inviting a "fine feathered frenzy" to "cut himself a piece of throat and make himself at home," Whitehead observes that "only God can make a trio...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THEATRE: Federal Flier | 12/21/1936 | See Source »

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