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Word: rainbow (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...creature of God's own personal creation will give the final artistic touch to the myriad patterns of flowing life in this island . . . and many people will see this beautiful child in just so many different ways as she adjusts to suit each situation a new color in the rainbow of her versatile personality...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A JOY FOREVER | 2/21/1939 | See Source »

Later, after a return to England, he lived in the Pyrenees. There he worked off excess energy by scaling cliffs, writing novels (The Olive Field, Rainbow Fish) and left-wing pamphlets, tilling steep fields with farmers. When the war began, Bates organized the mountaineers into scouting parties. When volunteers from other countries joined the Loyalists, he helped organize the International Brigade...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: El Fantastico | 2/13/1939 | See Source »

...protect spectators from flying pucks, sticks, and occasional severed limbs. But at two o'clock sharp, the tranqull ice is transformed into what resembles a subway rush in the 7th Avenue subway when a hundred or so shabbily dressed people with razor-like skates swarm over the boards-the Rainbow Division going over the top at Hill 22. After a general 15-minute melee, called "warm-up time", a whistle is blown and the first game is about to begin. For purposes of illustration, let us say, between Winthrop and Lowell...

Author: By Joseph P. Lyford, | Title: WHAT'S HIS NUMBER? | 2/1/1939 | See Source »

Alec Templeton: Musical Impressions, Satires & Improvisations (Gramophone Shop, Inc., 18 East 48th Street, Manhattan: 8 sides). Blind musical Satirist Templeton's one-man caricatures of Wagnerian Opera, Lieder singing, etc., have long been featured entertainment at Rockefeller Center's swanky Rainbow-Room. Their recorded versions are guaranteed to split the solemnest concertgoer's sides...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: January Records: SYMPHONIC, ETC. | 1/9/1939 | See Source »

...gradually expanded its annual statements. Last week it finally revealed most of the miscellaneous securities the great chemical firm has in the mysterious investment portfolio, which in the happy days of 1929 used to be regarded by speculators as a pot of gold at the end of a rainbow...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INVESTMENTS: Secrets | 10/17/1938 | See Source »

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