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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...accompaniment were originally composed and are played with heightening effect by Allen Sapp '43. In atending the Dramatic Club's work you will be supporting and encouraging the efforts of these enterprising young artists--and will be affording yourself a rare experience in theatre which is guaranteed not to disappoint...

Author: By R. C. H, | Title: THE PLAYGOER | 11/8/1940 | See Source »

...favorites did not disappoint the fans. The big, coal-black Hodge Brothers, Will & Sim, who operated a juke joint until one night they murdered a bothersome customer, ran away-as usual-with the calf-roping event. In the four years they have competed in the Prison Rodeo, the Hodges have set several unofficial world's records at calf roping, have won some $400 in prizes. Last October, Will was top money winner with $76, Sim runner-up with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Stars Behind Bars | 10/21/1940 | See Source »

...letter to the Portland Oregonian, 73-year-old H. G. Wells wrote: "America expects every Englishman to do his duty, and I don't think we shall disappoint...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Sep. 2, 1940 | 9/2/1940 | See Source »

...sorry to disappoint you, honey," the mayor quoted himself, "but I'm not praying for our boy. I'm praying for the British Navy and the Bank of England...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Mystery Story | 7/22/1940 | See Source »

THIS LAND Is OURS-Louis Zara-Houghton Mifflin ($2.75). By pure bulk of fodder this 776-page narrative of the Revolutionary frontier will satisfy munchers of romance as much as its mixture of admirable material and thoroughly uninspired talent will disappoint critics. In a Conestoga wagon, young Andrew Benton crosses the wild Alleghenies, gets into practically everything out there from the 1760s on, up to and including the last Indian war dance at Chicago...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Frontier Fiction | 5/6/1940 | See Source »

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