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Word: adding (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...girl ad, which had lost both dignity and raiment in its evolution from the patrician '205 to the leggy '403 (see cut), shows a sharp decline in popularity. > Color photography, once thought to spell the doom of hand-painted illustration, runs neck & neck with its rival. >The humorous cartoon ad ("Quick. Henry, the Flit!", etc.), which reached a peak in the middle '303, is on the way down...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Advertising Art | 4/27/1942 | See Source »

...plays are a bright, shifty blend of parable, poem, ballet, vaudeville, dream and relaxed ad-libbing. At their worst they contain, as Saroyan confesses, "careless and cheap feelings . . . cleverness and petty bitterness, spoofing and kidding, vulgarity here and there perhaps. . . ." At their best they meet Saroyan's requirements for art: "The surprise of art is not shock, but wonder. . . . The excitement it creates is not that of fear or loathing or irritation, but the excitement of revelation, understanding, love, and delight." Now & then Saroyan's spontaneity has the revelatory abruptness of a magnesium flare...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Gamins & Spinach | 4/27/1942 | See Source »

...Town" to get rid of the grocery boy and the iceman for the traditional reason. He also sings his famous "Going to Chicago Blues." Fortunately the management has spared a dozen tumbling acts and lets these various components of the feature attraction be more than names on an ad...

Author: By J. H. S., | Title: MOVIEGOER | 4/23/1942 | See Source »

...striking sentence "I am strapped" at the top of a CRIMSON classified ad, brought quick results to Allan Y. Davis '45, but failed to remove a set of bagpipes from the local area, merely transferring it from Mower Hall in the Yard to the room of Lawrence Brown '42, in Winthrop House...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Winthrop Skirler Purchases Yardling's Wailing Bagpipes | 4/21/1942 | See Source »

Included on Saturday evening's schedule is a concert by the Glee Club and the Pierian Sodality, ad the presentation of the Banner to the Freshmen in the triangle between Eliot, Kirkland, and Winthrop Houses. A dance from 9:30 to 12 o'clock at Lowell House will conclude that night's program...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: TRADITIONAL CLASS DAY DATES GREATLY ALTERED | 4/13/1942 | See Source »

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