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Word: weren (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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Trelawny of the Wells. Producer George C. Tyler said, "Where would the world be if it weren't for sentiment?"; and answered his own question by reviving Sir Arthur Wing Pinero's play with the the stage-folk of yesterday: John Drew, Mrs. Whiffen, Otto Kruger, Effie Shannon, Henrietta Crosman, Wilton Lackaye, O. P. Heggie. He tossed in a few of the younger luminaries, too: Pauline Lord...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: New Plays: Feb. 14, 1927 | 2/14/1927 | See Source »

...examination that we took, or were taken by. And we might very well have completely ignored those questions, letting the professor think that we were either zealous reformers, all two of us, or that we were refreshingly ignorant of the Facts. And he would know all along that we weren't at all. In Fact, we probably taught him much of the contents of those questions, the little rascal...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE CRIME | 2/12/1927 | See Source »

...hasn't got Betty Starbuck. She's a riot on roller skates. And you should see that chorus dance. It's the nearest thing to perfect in New York. Hart, Rogers, and Fields wrote the show; and that would be enough recommendation even if Helen Ford and Lulu McConnell weren...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE CRIMSON PLAYGOER | 1/26/1927 | See Source »

...tiptoed out softly, so as not to wake us, and we began to wonder what he would have done if we had said, "No." Presently we found out, as he came back an asked us again. And we said we weren't. Beside being the truth, this was a bad guess, because he believed...

Author: By R. L. W., | Title: THE CRIME | 1/13/1927 | See Source »

...thud, thud. Imagine the opportunity to see at one and the same time or at least within a week two productions of the same show, even though it is one of Shaw's worst, is now as dead as the dodo, the German war guilt and Ogden Mills. Weren't it for a friend of ours who goes to Vermont State Normal School we'd bet on Radcliffe, that is, knowing the Repertory...

Author: By D. G. G., | Title: THE CRIME | 11/11/1926 | See Source »

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