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Word: whites (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...belief, Harvard suffices are neither better nor worse than the average New York audience," opined Bert Lahr, star of Cole Perrier's new show "DuBarry Was a Lady," in his dressing room at the Shubert Theatre last night. "All shows these days are written for patrons of the Great White Way, and Harvard boys have their pseudo-sophistication...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Lahr considers Crimson Students Equal to Average Broadway Audience | 11/21/1939 | See Source »

...White: Popular animal at the A.M.A. show was White's model 200, "the White Horse." Features, 1) an air-cooled motor which is slung just ahead of the rear axle, can be unhitched and wheeled out on the rear wheels, an arrangement which claims to eliminate 551 parts, to facilitate keeping a fleet of trucks in condition, 2) a push-button door latch which needs but to be properly bumped to open, 3) an all-welded chassis (no bolts, no rivets), 4) a clutch-and-gear-shift combination which can be operated with one hand. Capacity of the truck...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CARRIERS: Trucks, A.D. 1940 | 11/20/1939 | See Source »

...Other White models, one to ten tons...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CARRIERS: Trucks, A.D. 1940 | 11/20/1939 | See Source »

...Jones & Co. needed a new high priest to lead the Dow cult of stockmarket analysis. They published some of Rhea's "notebooks" in Barron's weekly. The next year Rhea put his ideas on Dow lore into a book and, after publishers refused it as a white elephant, published it himself and sold over 90,000 copies. Letters began to pile up on the foot of Rhea's bed, and, unable to answer them individually, he one morning sent out a note to the effect that if & when he had anything worth saying, he would mimeograph...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Prophet in Bed | 11/20/1939 | See Source »

...canvas, the method used by all of the Old Masters. When you are standing perhaps fifty yards away from this colored pole which is no longer revolving, your eye mixes the tones for you, and it is rather difficult to distinguish between the red, the blue, and the white: this is Impressionism as far as its technique is concerned. The Impressionistic painter usually represents a momentary glimpse, one aspect of any chosen subject in this manner...

Author: By Jack Wilner, | Title: Collections & Critiques | 11/20/1939 | See Source »

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