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Word: voided (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...teeming with personalities. Actor Maurice Moscovitch, once famed in Manhattan's Yiddish theatres and more recently in London, has a few moments over the bier of his daughter when his voice is moving with tragic cadences. But you cannot forget that this is merely splendid histrionism, embellishing a void...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Feb. 3, 1930 | 2/3/1930 | See Source »

...exclusive privilege of wearing golden bracelets on her ankles. They had no sympathy for and viewed with alarm a decision just handed down by the Hindu Court of Nasik. In effect the court unfrocked the Hindu Pontiff Shankara Racharya and held that all his holy acts are void. One such act was to receive Miss Miller into the Hindu faith as a true convert. Another was to marry her to her ex-Maharaja. A third was to impart a "coconut baptism" to her child...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDIA: Poor Nancy! | 1/27/1930 | See Source »

...departure of the Forty-Seven Workshop left behind a void which has been filled at last. The absence of a play-writing course was a serious deficiency considering the number of men who are interested in the Theatre as a permanent career; its return was a foregone conclusion...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: OVERTURE | 1/23/1930 | See Source »

...short, the Vagabond means that void between the end of examinations and the beginning of the next term. Most undergraduates have anywhere from a week to ten days of freedom with nothing in prospect but a bacchanalian wassail or a scant jaunt to the hearth of his childhood. Both of these have their disadvantages. The first, purely aside from constitutional controversy, is bound to grow tiresome as a steady diet, and the latter very likely proves an unwonted strain on the purse-strings...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Student Vagabond | 1/20/1930 | See Source »

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