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Word: played (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...daughter of a onetime professor. As a young girl she was apprenticed to Munich Photographer Heinrich Hoffman, the Führer's old friend and official photographer, who was an acquaintance of the Braun family. A vivacious blonde, she used to mix cocktails and play the accordion for Hitler and the struggling Nazi group. "Today," says the Post, "Evi considers her accordion undignified and plays only the mandolin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: More About Evi | 12/18/1939 | See Source »

Several months ago the Japanese Army gave a general named Kawamoto the sole job of persuading Marshal Wu to play puppet. Learning that the good Marshal was a great student of Buddhist classics, Major General Kawamoto sought to ingratiate himself by studying Buddhism as Wu's disciple. The Marshal gladly expounded the Master's life, the Buddhist Canon, the four Truths. One day last month, thinking he had won the Marshal's heart, General Kawamoto suddenly switched the subject from pulpiteering to puppeteering. Would Wu Pei-fu play? "No!" thundered the Marshal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Buddha's Verdict | 12/18/1939 | See Source »

...about the merits of the Dramatic Club's new production, it did spotlight the slow strangling of education in dramatics by unreasonable labor union restrictions. Prevented from procuring a Boston theatre, the Club was compelled to use Sanders, where, as critics almost universally pointed out, the effectiveness of the play was marred by inadequate facilities...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: LABOR PAINS | 12/16/1939 | See Source »

...Freshmen will play at 7:30 o'clock in a preliminary to the Varsity game...

Author: By John C. Robbins jr., | Title: WESLEYAN TAKES 53-37 VICTORY FROM QUINTET | 12/16/1939 | See Source »

Glidden, three times National Champion, combines incredible speed of foot with a superb soft game. The Pools, Larry and Beckman, won their way to the top with two radically different types of play. Beekman has become almost a legond an the hardest hitting titlist in the history of the game, while Larry's claim to fame lies in amazing accuracy and endurance. Dixon and Rawlins are flawless stylists; the former was one of the earliest of Crimson squash luminaries produced by Harry Cowics...

Author: By Donald Peddle, | Title: Waht's His Number? | 12/15/1939 | See Source »

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