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Word: zenith (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...wonders what TIME is coming to, when the Sept. 3 issue includes Zenith's news column about its Mussolini-filtering radio, the Parker House clever news column under "Hotels." Milshire Gin's news column advertising their advertising, and the Heinz TIMEstyle two-column...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Oct. 1, 1934 | 10/1/1934 | See Source »

Bulk of the torch singing in the show is supplied by Joan Abbott, a pneumatic, wild-haired blonde with a cannonball delivery. She reaches her lyric zenith with a number called "Mother Eve" which seems to have Adam's wife confused with her competitor Lilith. More suitable for whistling: "Sleepy Moon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Play in Manhattan: Sep. 3, 1934 | 9/3/1934 | See Source »

...Lukas), into writing a song especially for her. So charmingly does she plague that she gets Victor in stead. Marriage to Victor brings her no nearer to success on the stage, and she is ready to give up her ambition when she reads that Ellen Terry never reached her zenith until she had a baby. Delivered of a baby, Linda gives up singing for dancing, shoots overnight to stardom. A few good hits behind her, and she falls in love with her newest leading man, handsome wasp-waisted Lorenzo Valenti (Philip Reed). She divorces Victor, leaves her baby, runs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: May 21, 1934 | 5/21/1934 | See Source »

...plot and action no one seems to care particularly, but there are spectacles in profusion. Jimmy Durante is apparently past his zenith, his part is comparatively small...

Author: By H. R. H., | Title: CRIMSON PLAYGOER | 5/7/1934 | See Source »

...inquisitive organization has sent out to all members of the undergraduate body a questionnaire which in its thoroughness of enquiry, scope of imagination, and absence of tact has hitherto been equalled only by the advertisements of soaps and mouth-washes. This questionnaire represents perhaps the zenith of the Psychologist's bad taste and offers yet another example of the folly of Science when she strays too far from her crucibles and astralobes...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: From Divinity Hall | 3/17/1934 | See Source »

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