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Word: vies (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...other four sides the gauntleted hand of Director Leonard Feather, whose outlook on hot music is in general futuristic, can be detected. Tenor saxophonist Don Byas, and violinist-trumpeter Roy Nance, vie with each other to see who can try the most technical innovations in sixteen minutes. Nance even drags in a little pizzicato on one of his opening violin choruses. Through it all, however, snatches of Heywood may be heard which, though a bit incongruous in such company are responsible for whatever merit there is in this half...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Jazz | 3/13/1947 | See Source »

...Temps et la Vie, L'homme devant la Science, and L'Avenir de L'Esprit (which ran through 22 French editions in eight months during the occupation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Telefinality | 2/24/1947 | See Source »

Most experienced of the cast will be Marie Heath, ex-Old Vie associate now living in Cambridge while her husband studies at the graduate school...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Veterans Theatre to Offer World Premiere of Latest Gerhardi Play | 11/21/1946 | See Source »

...battle of the repertory companies, just a minor skirmish last year, is beginning to assume the proportions of a full-scale engagement in the American Theatre. This week the new American Repertory Theatre entered the lists against the established Theatre Incorporated, Theater Guild Repertory, and Old Vie companies with a high-powered, grandly conceived production of the rarely performed Elizabethan chronicle. Henry VIII written partly by Shakespeare and chiefly by his contemporary John Fletcher...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Playgoer | 10/9/1946 | See Source »

...with a capital X, reached a new high last night as six College students used their phone techniques (strictly from Adam Lazonga) to vie for the dubious honor of dates with three sweet young things who hail from an adjacent college. The setting was the crimson Network's 9 o'clock broadcast of its new program, "Wolf Calls...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 'Take Me, Luscious,' Says Network Swain, Nabs Skirted Spoils | 10/4/1946 | See Source »

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