Search Details

Word: ganges (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

...where Fred holds sway like a master of ceremonies. Only other active member of the original four is Poley McClintock, who more than any other member has made the Waring band memorable, by his froggy-voiced interpolations. Fred Buck is dead. Tom Waring is still considered one of the gang but spends most of his time practicing for a debut as a concert baritone. Fred directs production, helps write continuity, coaches the gang in rehearsal ("come lively," "stay with me," "give it rapture!"), plays golf in the 705 as his main relaxation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Fred Waring, Inc. | 6/26/1939 | See Source »

...District Attorney, which will substitute for Pepsodent's Bob Hope, program on NBC-Red this summer, is typical of the vulgate radio shows by Phillips H. Lord (Seth Parker, Gang Busters, We, the People). Racket situations are dramatized and a Dewey-style prosecuting attorney goes to work on the fictionized culprits...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Spring Tryouts | 6/5/1939 | See Source »

...Nazi, is still popular in Germany. But his Iron Gustav has been quietly blacklisted. Joseph Ponten's seven-volume historical novel will trace the emigrations of German minorities abroad, especially in Russia. Edwin Erich Dwinger's The Last Horsemen describes the futile attempt of a gang of German frontier soldiers to invade Courland and make it a German province...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Blood-thinking | 6/5/1939 | See Source »

Passing by in his car while the gang was tossing stones at the persons on the roof, the student stopped and opened fire on the rowdies with his air rifle. He was immediately mobbed and when the blood and crowds had cleared he was taken off to Stillman...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HARVARD GUNMAN INJURED | 5/31/1939 | See Source »

...lead away from speedy little El Chico (winter-book favorite) at the first quarter, long-striding Johnstown streaked farther away from the field at every pole, breezed under the wire in a common gallop, with ears cocked as if wondering what had happened to the rest of the gang. Six lengths behind was W. L. Brann's Challedon, one length in front of Jock Whitney's Heather Broom. El Chico, on whom some million dollars were probably wagered in winter books, finished out of the money...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Big John | 5/15/1939 | See Source »

First | Previous | 1195 | 1196 | 1197 | 1198 | 1199 | 1200 | 1201 | 1202 | 1203 | 1204 | 1205 | 1206 | 1207 | 1208 | 1209 | 1210 | 1211 | 1212 | 1213 | 1214 | 1215 | Next | Last