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Word: tumblersful (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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It was the Lunts' somewhat radical notion that The Shrew needed gaiety and bounce. Accordingly, they have resurrected the possibly anachronistic "Induction," which begins the piece with a troupe of jolly players marching into a nobleman's house with drums and cymbals to beguile him for an evening...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: Plain Kate, Bonny Kate | 10/14/1935 | See Source »

Hundreds of smart businessmen went to Chicago's Palmer House last week to inspect the most complete assortment of typical U. S. gadgets, gimcracks, knick-knacks and thingumabobs ever assembled. It was the fifth annual Premium Buyers' Exposition, to which went representatives of all the big U. S...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Thingumabobs | 5/20/1935 | See Source »

Early one evening last week a waiter with a tray of cocktails approached two grey-haired, dinner-jacketed gentlemen chatting amiably in the Colonel's Reception Room of Manhattan's Seventh Regiment Armory. One smiled, shook his head. The other grinned, took a glass, raised it in his...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Duo | 4/22/1935 | See Source »

One of the things expected of a Harvard man, almost without saying, is to scorn the antics of Joe Penner, but the fact remains that that gentleman can be really quite a funny fellow. His present performance, however, is merely a succession of his stock phrases, strung together with the...

Author: By R. O. B., | Title: AT RKO KEITH'S | 2/5/1935 | See Source »

What "General" Farley and the Roosevelts saw was unquestionably worth the trip to New York. Only occasionally is Producer Dowling on view, for that old-time song-&-dance man (Follies) modestly limits his appearance to a few skits. But his wife, little Ray Dooley, has all sorts of funny things...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Jan. 7, 1935 | 1/7/1935 | See Source »

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