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Word: una (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...time. The iron is driven, at last, into his soul. Broken in body, robbed of his faith in his own supremacy, he falls, like an oak that tried to withstand the spring floods long after its sap had dried up. Playwright Murray has created a character, brilliantly interpreted by Una O'Connor; a wizened Cassandra, whose unheeded prophecies point, from the beginning, to the Nemesis...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: New Plays: Nov. 15, 1926 | 11/15/1926 | See Source »

...from The Faerie Queen,* that poetic conceit of a "sweet wit and pretty invention" which young Edmund Spenser wrote to flatter Queen Elizabeth while he was helping to pacify her province of Ireland. Miss Lorraine Keck galloped right nobly as the Red Cross Knight to rescue pretty Helen Howard (Una) from the unspeakable machinations of Ivy Trace (Archimago) and her vicious minions. "Eftsoones they heard a most melodious sound," the college musicians rendering appropriate strains from Meyerbeer, Gounod, Arens, Liszt or Wagner...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: May | 5/24/1926 | See Source »

Married. A. S. M. (Arthur Stuart Menteth) Hutchinson, famed British novelist (If Winter Comes), son of the late Lieutenant General H. D. Hutchinson, to Miss Una Rosamond Bristowe-Gapper; at London...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Mar. 1, 1926 | 3/1/1926 | See Source »

...sent food and clothing to the captives, but there is no news to hand that these unfortunates have received them. Another report states that the captives are having a "wonderful time"; the British think it is a " topping excursion "; the Yanks are doing " durned fine "; the Italians " facendo una festa"; the Japs and the Chinks, with their oriental stoicism, say nothing. Then a charge of tragedy is shot into the practical joke when it is announced that the captives are dying of hunger or exposure. On the whole, it seems that the captive foreigners are not likely to be badly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: Celestial Banditry | 5/19/1923 | See Source »

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