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Word: exit (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...fashioned singing class, so that he could keep a sharp eye and a firm baton on them. Tenor Jan Peerce, in the first act's duet with Soprano Licia Albanese, closed on a lower E (as Puccini wrote it) instead of the flashier high C he likes to exit on at the Met. Surprise star of the show was Toscanini's 20-year-old soprano find, Anne Me Knight (TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Return Engagement | 2/11/1946 | See Source »

This yarn of all weathers-in which Shakespeare brought "dead" queens back to life, gave Bohemia a seacoast and tossed the wondrous stage direction, "Exit, pursued by a bear"-is not often, or easily, produced. Last week it got a fairly good production, turned out to be a fairly lively evening. If the hey-nonny-nonny sometimes breathed a desperate gaiety, most of the melodrama was pretty sound theater. And there were snatches of much-loved poetry (Daffodils that come before the swallow dares, and take the winds of March with beauty. . .). Most Shakespearean in reciting his lines (though...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Old Play in Manhattan, Jan. 28, 1946 | 1/28/1946 | See Source »

Seeking escape by the only likely-looking "exit," he pops through a little side door. An electric shock tickles his feet. He bolts up a ramp to a death chamber where electric contacts finish him off and dump his body into a wire basket. Meanwhile, the trap resets itself for another victim. The whole cycle takes about three minutes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Electronic Piper | 10/1/1945 | See Source »

...shut up." That finished Olmo (fine: $50). For objecting to Dunn's action, Manager Leo ("The Lip'') Durocher also got the heave-ho. The Pirates, long experienced in treading the paths of banishment, began laying a carpet of towels for the Lip's exit. Durocher gave the towels a few kicks, then reached into a box of baseballs and scattered the pellets down the right-field foul line. Fine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Royal Thumbing | 9/17/1945 | See Source »

...Exit Afoot. In Ogden, Utah, City Commissioner William D. Wood rode happily into a rodeo arena to acknowledge his selection as rodeo foreman, was promptly thrown by his horse...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Aug. 13, 1945 | 8/13/1945 | See Source »

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